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 ...

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 ...

TOPSHOT - Demonstrators take part in a protest over a fuel price hike ordered by the government to secure an IMF loan, in Quito, on October 11, 2019. The Mexican government recently reached an ...

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 ...

In the article “A New Way to Curb Poverty” (April 15), you highlight with accuracy many of the issues related to those organizations that seek to improve the financial well-being of America’s ...

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 ...

While in Lebanon, Monsignor John Esseff, left, and his brother, George Esseff, pose with Ellen Franco, author of ‘Brothers & Fathers,’ which details the brothers’ lives. submitted photo WILKES-BARRE — ...

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 words of Dilexi Te ("I Have Loved You") — the apostolic exhortation on love for the poor released by the Vatican Oct. 9 — come from the pen of two pontiffs, Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV. With his ...

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.