A new social economy is required to meet the day's most pressing needs, said Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson.

The expanded labor policy requires farm employers to pay workers one and one-half times regular wages after eight hours in a day or 40 hours in a week, starting in 2019.

Now even the word “scapular” is a rare sighting, let alone the lovely gentle honest thing itself.

Joseph Ratzinger “fell in love … in a very serious way” as a student and struggled “very much” with the idea of taking a vow of celibacy.

The bishops insisted it is not proper to speak of "permission to receive the sacraments" when it is, in fact, an invitation to "a process of discernment accompanied by a priest."

Every day, Agnes Imdieke lit a candle and prayed for the safe return of Jacob Wetterling.

Monitoring groups and state media reported clashes up until the final minutes, and the most powerful rebel groups having yet to commit to the truce.

Catholic parishes must help to alleviate what some have termed an “epidemic of loneliness.”

To do right is never easy.

Today, a single atom bomb dropped on a major city would immediately kill hundreds of thousands.

Sixteen-year-old Giuseppe Chiolo had come to the Vatican by ambulance from Florence.

“There has been a Hispanic presence and influence in this country from the beginning. We need to recover this ‘forgotten’ history.”

The Boston College grad worked as an equities trader at the World Trade Center. But he had always wanted to be a firefighter.

Fewer than two in 10 U.S. Catholics hold a favorable view of Muslims, with many possessing little understanding when it comes to the beliefs of the world’s second largest religion.

The question of the accountability has been a major concern of the commission from the outset.

The Democratic V-P nominee tells Human Rights Campaign marriage equality is compatible with Catholic values.

"People—sure they need firefighters, sure they need police. But we bring our faith and our compassion and our care and our community to help people.”

With age comes finding greater challenges in the Gospels, Pope Benedict XVI says.

The Catholic university in Baltimore serves as the main training ground for five swimmers competing at the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Artists from across the country are coming together to perform, raise awareness about the global refugee crisis.