On his first day in Madagascar, Pope Francis issued a strong call to the governmental authorities of this island of 27 million people to fight “with determination” against “endemic forms of corruption and speculation,” to “confront” the situations that “create conditions of inhumane poverty,” and to protect the environment against damage to nature and the people.

Children are consistently the poorest age group in the United States, writes Robert David Sullivan. But will they be heard in Washington as they become outnumbered by people over 65?

A priest in Kentucky handed out more than $20,000 on Monday to miners struggling to pay bills after the coal company they work for filed for bankruptcy protection.

The Trump administration is weighing a plan that uses a different definition of inflation to determine who lives in poverty and who does not.

Jesuit poverty should be as dramatically visible and shocking as the incarnation of Jesus.

‘Dignity’ is part a long tradition of writers who left their lives of comfort to study squalor and decline,