Church leaders are alarmed by the "political, social and economic meltdown, which has caused untold suffering..."

"Statistics show that 80 percent will leave their faith by age 23....We felt the call to help in this new means of evangelization."

A medical unit with Vatican license plates lets the migrants, "who live in truly inhumane conditions" see and experience "the closeness of the pope and the church."

The U.S. bishops argue that the act closes loopholes that are allowing states to mandate abortions be performed or covered by Catholic and other faith-based health care providers.

The National Black Catholic Congress issued a prayer and call to action on July 13 following a week of violence across the United States.

“The darkness of violence cannot dim the light of humanity’s highest aspirations to live in peace,” Archbishop Joseph Kurtz said, offering prayers for the dead and wounded.

Video shot by terrified civilians shows crowds fleeing in panic, leaping off the elevated pavement onto the beach below, and police finally surrounding the stationary truck and fatally shooting its driver.

Create the smallest of openings, and Christ can put Peter Pan to shame.

At the time of writing, no terrorist organization has claimed responsibility.

To love one’s neighbors is to seek to understand their experience.

Croats see Stepinac as a symbol of the church's resistance to communist oppression.

Garvey said that requiring commitment by faculty to a Catholic intellectual tradition is not in opposition to academic freedom.

"I have never seen such wonderful program like theirs," a student's mother said.

"It's a choice between hot and hell," said voter Annette Scott.

"By the time we reached the border, the man next to me had died from bleeding," a young Ugandan man said.

"The number one challenge is to stabilize the economy, send signals of confidence about the future, the plans we have for the future, to the markets, to businesses, to international investors."

A mosque in Florida was pulled as a polling station after an anti-Islamic backlash.

The announcement made on July 12 came less than 24 hours after it was thought participants in the church's General Synod rejected the motion.

Bishops argue that use of the Trident weapons would result in massive and indiscriminate loss of human life.