If you’ve been following the news lately, you know that our Church is currently in a time of crisis. Throughout the world, our brothers and sisters are suffering from religious persecution, famine and poverty, and lack of adequate education. Now, the clergy abuse crisis adds another burden to disturb and sorrow the hearts of...

According to a recent report done by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, almost 2.2 million American adults are behind bars. This number is hard to fathom.

You may not have thought about it or realized it, but many of our brothers and sisters are living in tough prison conditions out of sight and out of reach of help and ministry....

When it comes to personal prayer, most of us are likely to think of our own needs first, as well as the needs of our closest family and friends. Often it seems almost useless to pray for those suffering in remote parts of the world or the hidden poor in our own communities. What can our prayer possibly do for them?

The beautiful Central American country of Guatemala is replete with colonial architecture, Mayan cultural influences, and the Catholic faith, but it is not an easy place to live for the majority of its citizens. Guatemala still suffers from the scars inflicted by its own civil war in the 1950s and 60s, in which the state army “...

In every society, women and children are the most vulnerable. Violence, lack of access to education, homelessness, and acute poverty all affect the stability and health of the mothers who attempt to raise, protect, and care for their children, the young faces of the future.