A Vatican spokesman dismissed reports that the Holy See has rejected several candidates because of their support for legal abortion.
Pope Benedict XVI called for all nations to end the production, stockpiling and use of land mines and cluster bombs.
Tom McCluskey, vice president of FRC Action, the legislative arm of the Washington-based Family Research Council, said the effort to ratify amendments to the U.S. Constitution may provide a better analogy for state-by-state campaigns to restrict abortion than efforts to abolish the death penalty. Bu
Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Birmingham, England (left), as archbishop of Westminster.
A new report says that after growing rapidly between 1990 and 2006, the population of undocumented immigrants has stabilized.
We are simply beyond capacity at this point, said a Catholic Charities worker in St. Louis, Mo.
The church teaches that "every life has value and dignity. That is a given," said Andy Rivas, executive director of the Texas Catholic Conference during a Feb. 24 program at the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington. Rivas helped devise a program of events in Texas in November that sought