Inhabitants of low-lying islands across the Pacific know climate change is very real if rising sea levels are any indication.
Sister Margaret Mary McBride concurred with an ethics committee’s decision to abort the fetus of a gravely ill woman.
Vatican cautions that the successful development of a synthetic cell can have many practical applications, but the technology must be regulated.
Presenting the working document for the special Synod of Bishops on the Middle East, Pope Benedict XVI prayed for "just and lasting solutions" to the region's conflicts.
The U.S.C.C.B. has withdrawn from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, citing the group’s “expanded and broadened agenda.”
The law marked "a needed and long awaited beginning" of bringing greater justice to all citizens," the journal said.
Advocates for Haitian peasants said the company's donation of hybrid vegetable seeds will harm the island-nation's agriculture.