Today, Dr. Jose Frank Piña, 30, has a wife and a daughter in his native Dominican Republic. He is a medical missionary who shares medical advice every Saturday on television. But when he was growing ...

Compassion is an act of helping someone who is miserable because of breaking God’s laws or because of circumstances beyond their control. (Jude 1:21-22) We have circumstances beyond our control in ...

Pope Francis on Sunday urged people to remember the closeness, compassion, and tenderness of God. Speaking before the midday Angelus on Feb. 14, the pope reflected on the day's Gospel reading (Mark ...

New York City health workers stand outside for a round of applause. (Noam Galai / Getty Images) The Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II joined The Nation for a weekly virtual series. As the conversation ...

Sr. Simone Campbell, a Sister of Social Service, who is executive director of the Catholic social justice lobby Network, and Jesuit Fr. James Martin, author and editor at large of America magazine, ...

Sacrifice did not begin as a divine instruction. It began as a human response to vulnerability. Faced with forces beyond control—weather, fertility, illness, loss—human beings reached for a way to ...