After years of strain, relations between Ireland and the Vatican are warming up.

Thomas Piketty's book prompts a new evaluation of human and social costs of capitalism.

The call to live simple, communal lives is not for clerics alone but all Catholics.

Church's focus on the human factor may help to broaden discussion of environmental policy.

Federal regulators have so far declined to rein in high-frequency trading.

The world should pause for a moment to acknowledge the fortitude of the Afghan people.

In spirit and law the U.S. must recognize the economic and cultural value of immigrants.

Turkey’s troubles are worrisome for those looking for models of authority in the region.

“As the deer longs for streams of water,” so we feel for the coming of Christ.

5,000 deaths, $6 trillion. But there's still another cost to U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.