Some influential commentators and political activists have begun to again argue that government should no longer provide essential social services to the needy, labeling such a practice an unnecessary ...

Helping people work their way out of poverty isn't just about money. It requires addressing the beliefs and culture around money that may be keeping people stuck both financially and emotionally.Like ...

Faced with an empathy gap before the 2014 midterm elections, Republicans are trying to forge a new image as a party that helps the poor and lifts struggling workers into the middle class. GOP leaders ...

The United States remains the richest country in the world. Given that fact, we should be leading the world in helping those who are “poor,” in America and around the globe. And we have done so. That ...

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, asked in a nationally televised interview why most Jews are Democrats, invoked the idea of tikkun olam, the Jewish mandate to repair the world, which the Virginia ...

LOGAN, Ohio – Before dawn, in a cold, blustery drizzle, a line forms outside a small, squat building on an open stretch of road on the outskirts of town. “My heater quit working in my car,” Scott ...

American Catholics with leaders more focused on politics and culture wars have been comfortable ignoring church teachings on the importance of helping the poor and displaced. No more. The first ...

Christians are called to be the proverbial “hands and feet of Jesus,” feeding, clothing and assisting the less fortunate. Yet legal stalemates between faith-filled ministries and local governments — ...

In the first major teaching of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV turned his attention to the poor, calling on Christians worldwide to defend those who are “lowly and powerless.” A 40-page document known as an ...

The Hartford Archdiocese has put the popular priest at Holy Trinity Church in Hartford on administrative leave as it investigates what it calls alleged “possible financial improprieties.” The Rev.