U.S. bishops gathered in New Orleans are urged to promote and support families.

The Brazilian bishops' conference has given the government and 2014 FIFA World Cup organizers a "red card" for putting the competition above the Brazilian people's basic needs.In soccer, a "red card" is given to players who commit serious fouls and are expelled from the g

The Bible in the life and mission of the Latin American church

Immigration worries are back in the headlines after a sudden flurry of media attention to what has been a slowly building humanitarian catastrophe the increasing numbers of unaccompanied minors reaching the U S southern border some as young as 5 and 6 after a perilous crossing through Mexico fro

Church leaders in northern Iraq struggled to find shelter for Christians who were among hundreds of thousands who fled Mosul, the country's second-largest city, after Islamist forces took over much of the town, a Chaldean Catholic archbishop said.Christians began fleeing early on June 9, Archbis

Pope Francis denounced those responsible for human trafficking, slave labor and arms manufacturing, saying people producing weapons of war are "merchants of death.""One day everything comes to an end and they will be held accountable to God," the pope said at his weekly general a

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In West Point speech, Obama makes his case for the new role of American power abroad.

As the United Nations reported that 480,000 people have fled after months of fighting in Iraq’s Anbar province, suicide bombings and clashes between security forces and militants killed 36 people on May 30. • Security forces in Afghanistan on June 6 were questioning three Taliban members

Each mass shooting seems to highlight something uniquely “off” in American society.

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By the spring of 1973, the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., had become a sensation but not yet an obsession.

Francis dismisses all-Italian five-member board of Vatican’s financial watchdog.

It’s hard to believe that there is still an untold story about Watergate. Yet here it is.