An emotional Spence said this afternoon that critics went after him "full-court on the blogoshere” over the past few days.

Commenting on the apostolic exhortation during a press discussion a few hours after its formal release on April 8, Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo, N.Y., chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, said, “Amoris Laetitia” was focused

"That there are over 20 million people callously held in modern slavery in our world today is a mark of deep shame on the face of our human family."

The exhortation is “an inspirational aid" to "generously accompany couples as they prepare for marriage and throughout their married life."

Sachs argues that plan to address ecological and worldwide poverty issues simultaneously are eminently realizable.

Some may dismiss the speaker’s belated apology as too-little, too-late, but who can say what his young audience will make of it?

The ongoing water emergency in Flint exposed the leaky state of public water resources across the country.

Friends, family members and activists associated with the slain Honduran Berta Cáceres are calling for an independent investigation into her killing through the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

“She was criminalized by Honduran authorities because of her activism, so now it is too difficult for her family to think the same system is going to make an independent and true investigation.”

It has been a grim couple of days reading about and listening to testimony related to past abuse of children by Catholic priests.