"The most common abuses that we are documenting and hearing about … are torture, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions.”

The surprise announcement from Rome of the upcoming meeting between Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and Pope Francis “shows definitively Francis’ vocation as a pontiff, a bridge-builder,” Kevin Ahern, an assistant professor of religious studies at Manhattan College said on Feb. 5.&ldquo

More Mexicans remain tied to their Catholic faith compared with people in many other Latin American countries.

Pope and Patriarch likely to focus on areas for collaboration and dialogue.

Aid in place needed to staunch refugee crisis.

True unity and true dialogue can only be found in common mission.

The indictments produced a wave of media coverage heavy with schadenfruede among supporters of Planned Parenthood.

In Flint, Mich., jobs have been scarce for years, but crime and foreclosures have been on the rise. Domestic violence and depression are household scourges, and a steady population decline has made the running of the city and even its long-term viability increasingly tenuous. As if these and many mo

In what may prove to be confirmation of a national trend among part-time or adjunct faculty at U.S. colleges and universities, contingent faculty at Loyola University Chicago voted today to join Local 73 of the Service Employees International Union, becoming the third Chicago group of part-time

State officials report that all children who drank the city's water since April 2014 have been exposed to lead.