Republicans’ problem with the pope is not that he’s too liberal on issues such as capitalism, it’s that he’s too conservative.

This is going to be the most difficult trip of the Argentinian pontiff so far. Here’s why it’s worth paying attention to.

Warning of “unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem,” Pope Francis in an encyclical to be released this week (and already leaked) calls for aggressive action to combat climate change and other environmental…

A scholar of Roman Catholicism explains why Pope Francis’ visit to Mongolia, home to fewer than 1,500 Catholics, is significant.

Globalization first became a bedrock of our vocabulary in the 1990s in the aftermath of the Cold War. Proponents of globalization then argued that everything would change – and for the better. There would…

In late November, the Vatican confirmed that Pope Francis is going to visit the United States of America for the World Meeting of Families that will take place in Philadelphia at the end of September 2015…

The pope’s encyclical challenges the belief in markets to solve social ills – a difficult message for Catholic Republican presidential candidates to accept.

Joe Biden may be only the country’s second Catholic president, but a long line of U.S. leaders have met with popes over the years.

The United States could have a more productive discussion about prison reform, if we admitted the problems with prisons also affect our poorest communities.

Candidate Donald Trump called NATO ‘obsolete.’ Since becoming president he has reversed that view, but what he said – and didn’t say – during his recent visit will not have put NATO leaders at ease.