South Sudan's peace deal is fatally flawed, the country's bishops said as they committed the church to helping forge new negotiations. They also recommended a series of measures to end the conflict.

During a meeting of the 2019 General Conference of the United Methodist Church held on Feb. 23-26, delegates voted 438-384 to approve the "Traditional Plan," which states that homosexuality is not compatible with Christianity.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has sent a death row case back to the lower courts to determine whether an inmate's history of strokes and dementia while being on death row is cause for tossing out his death sentence.

Every day and on every continent women religious are doing life-saving, cutting-edge work in hospitals and research laboratories, refugee camps and prisons. Dawn Araujo-Hawkins tells their stories.

The founder of the Jesuits writes, “What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.” Let’s unpack that.

In this episode of “Deliver Us” we ask: Is the church still covering up abuse?

Two thousand years ago, our God entered into this beautiful chaos of our world, here, in Bethlehem. 

The chairman of the U.S. bishops' pro-life committee, Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., applauded the Trump Administration's finalizing its "Protect Life Rule," which would prohibit funds from the Title X Family Planning Program being used by facilities providing abortions.

A broad investor coalition involving religious orders, labor unions and state pension funds that control more than $3 trillion in assets is working with the nation's leading drug distributors as corporate annual meeting season nears.

There are elements in the trial of Cardinal Pell that do not easily translate to a U.S. context, including a media blackout and the cardinal’s long history with the issues of sexual abuse and cover-up.

The U. S. Supreme Court is presently hearing oral arguments concerning the constitutional status of a World War I era memorial cross erected in 1925 in remembrance of those from Prince George's County, Maryland who died in the conflict. The suit was brought about by those who believe that the monument signifies a state endorsement of organized religion.

“I think the fact that she’s a Catholic and still pushed this investigation forward shows that she did it at great cost.”

To live in the real, to reject illusion is to set our face toward growth and toward God.

Babies are experts at instructing us in the preciousness of human life. Our advocacy for the unborn will be most effective when we allow it make us more compassionate and more humane.

Today, we visited the Baptismal site at Qasr Al Yahoud, which holds the oldest and most ancient tradition for being the place of Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist in the Jordan River.

The church rules insist that the priest provide economic support for the children, he said, but they also recognize that the duties and responsibilities of fatherhood go beyond that to include affection and education, especially in the first years of the child's life.

The Peruvian cardinal was in Rome for a conference sponsored by the general secretariat of the Synod of Bishop centered on the topics that will be discussed at the synod Oct. 6-27.

The family of Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann is suing The Washington Post for how it covered the viral incident following the March for Life. From a Catholic perspective, an open and honest conversation is the preferred option.

If tried and found guilty, the penalties can vary depending on the seriousness of the crime and, often, the age of the accused; possible penalties include removal from office, restricted ministry, “a life of prayer and penance” without any public ministry and dismissal from the clerical state.