Catholic dioceses continue to report mounting problems keeping their schools afloat amid a lackluster economy.
Anglo-Catholic clergy are sharply divided over how to respond to the ordination of women as bishops.
Pope Benedict XVI praised the 108 nations that have adopted a treaty banning the stockpiling and use of cluster bombs.
Catholic aid organizations are responding in Pakistan after the most intense monsoon rainsin the past 30 years caused landslides and floods.
Catholic Relief Services and Caritas Internationalis coordinate a global response to the unprecedented emergency in Pakistan
Access to water is just one small part of the complex of political and structural discord between Israelis and the Palestinians.
Iraq's ancient Christian communities face extinction if a U.S. withdrawal is not accompanied by a comprehensive humanitarian response, says Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick.