"Eighty percent of the farm bill is around the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. It's significant when we hear it's going to include some dramatic cuts."

In California, Catholic opponents of the death penalty are trying to protect the largest population of inmates awaiting execution in the Western Hemisphere.

Wisconsin is the 15th state to at least put limits on seizures. Other states should follow suit.

Ministering in rural areas should be rooted in building relationships that understand people's connection to their land.

When we say we do not want to live in this time, we are acting more like the priest than like the Samaritan.

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a Florida-based farmworker group, led a "Freedom Fast" to draw attention to the epidemic of sexual assault and harassment of farmworker women and to the C.I.W.’s ongoing boycott of the fast-food chain Wendy’s.