America Staff

Pope Benedict XVI’s message about environmental protection in Charity in Truth has applications both in daily life and in the political arena, adovocates say.

Although one out of five U.S. soldiers is Catholic, there are just 100 Catholic chaplains for the entire U.S. Army.

The question of whether the wage increase will help or hurt the economy remains to be seen.

A conference addresses expanding a successful Lectio Divina Scripture study program for Hispanic Catholics.

The Mexican Catholic bishops’ conference has criticized federal police for bursting into a Mass in the state of Michoaca.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer detain families at a much-criticized former medium-security prison in Texas.

A statement from the Secretariat of Public Security apologized for a police raid that interrupted a Mass in Michoaca.

A Zambian priest said the nation’s information minister should resign for accusing the Catholic Church of complicity in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

A Catholic archbishop said only a few people accused in last year’s violence against Christians have been arrested.