Increasingly brutal attacks on Christian villages have been explained as the result of conflict over diminishing resources.

The Catholic bishops of Australia are refuting claims that they are not doing enough to combat sexual abuse within the church.

Mexico's bishops are calling for civil authorities to "make all possible efforts" to assist the people economically and medically during the pandemic.

An appeal is being made to Turkey's highest administrative court to have it reject a proposal of having Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia revert to being a mosque instead of a museum.

Religious liberty advocates believe that the latest Supreme Court decision will finally banish the hated 19th-century Blaine Amendments for good.

A federal judge has ruled that a Trump administration policy regarding asylum seekers was unlawfully implemented.

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo has appealed to Christians and all people of faith “to pray for Hong Kong” following the imposition by China of a new national security law.

A cartoon series from a decade ago proves to have profound lessons for today.

Broken down between white and Hispanic Catholics, the numbers show a stark divide.

Feeling restless because we cannot go out to eat or attend a concert hardly amounts to involuntary incarceration.

Leo. J. O’Donovan, S.J., makes a virtual visit to the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The Supreme Court decision is a major win for school choice advocates and the church’s efforts to serve poor and marginalized communities, writes Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami.

Our fidelity to Christ and his body the church should have less to do with becoming an aggrieved church of fire damage than becoming a compassionate church of kinship with the broken.

John F. Kennedy wrote for America on the brewing crisis between France and Algeria in 1957. Algeria gained independence from France in July 1962.

Colson Whitehead's award-winning novel is a timely reflection on who gets to write history...and who gets to erase it.

Though liberation is often won through violence, love can never conquer through compulsion. Love must always be meek.

In the letter, Francis reveals that Benedict was the first to inform him of the sad news.

The late-evening statement signaled the Vatican’s wish to let the whole world know that it fundamentally disagrees with any annexation.

Could the ruling really mark the end of Blaine amendments?

"We see with increasing urgency the need for a state intelligently existing and dialoguing with the community to respond to the emergency produced by the pandemic," they said.