VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The gleaming colonnade of St. Peter's Square provides a majestic backdrop as four men wait for a free dinner on a terrace in the heart of the Vatican, on a balmy April evening ...

Janelle Goetcheus did not intend to stay in Washington when she visited the city in 1975. She was only passing through while she and her husband, a United Methodist minister, awaited visas to Pakistan ...

Pope Leo XIV shares a moment with a guest at lunch in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican on Nov. 16, the ninth World Day of the Poor. Credit: CNS photo/Lola Gomez “Poverty challenges Christians, ...

Across the country, policymakers are criminalizing homelessness. The intent, they say, is to attend to the unhoused and revitalize public spaces. But service providers know enforcement-based ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A group of 40 people, including migrants, the incarcerated, homeless people and transgender people, will greet the late Pope Francis with white roses on the steps of the Basilica ...

The president announced on Aug. 11 that he was temporarily seizing control of the Metropolitan Police Department Bulldozers, garbage trucks and apparent warning notes have appeared on tents in ...

Economic pain at home and abroad from the war in Iran is placing millions of Americans at risk of financial ruin, following years of housing scarcity and employment volatility. Brian Goldstone, in his ...

Retired Col. Paul “Mac” McNamara was a helicopter pilot for many of his 27 years in the Marine Corps. He served in Operation Desert Storm and later supported anti-trafficking operations and flew ...