'Vision,' Margarethe von Trotta's study of Hildegard of Bingen, is both a film and a moral lesson.

In Latin America, women hold only one-third of top-level jobs.

The U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, Miguel H. Díaz, said on Oct. 5 that human migration should be accepted as both a Christian and a political duty.

'The Social Network' examines the founding myth of Facebook

Almost 44 million Americans now live below the poverty line, and 21 percent of all U.S. children are growing up poor.

The last remaining Catholic adoption agency in England has filed an appeal against a decision forbidding it to turn away same-sex couples.

The authors’ previous work, Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy, which recounted the shooting of schoolchildren in Nickel Mines, Pa., was a CBC selection in the fall of 2007 and became a national bestseller and a television movie. Drawing on the authors’ personal interviews and firsthand experience, their follow-up book, The Amish Way, probes the spirituality and practices of this fascinating culture and its adherents. Its 12 chapters offer a window into the meaning of community, living together, children and family, nature, evil and more.

Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan has pledged a seat in a New York Catholic school for any child who wants it.

The president of the Philippine bishops’ conference denied reports that he threatened to excommunicate the president over his proposal to distribute contraceptives.