America Staff

In a major address in Krakow, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz assessed the progress of Jewish-Catholic relations in Poland over the last half-century.

Mary Ann Glendon (left), former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, will receive the University of Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal on May 17.

The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life criticized a hasty public declaration of the excommunication of the girls mother and doctors.

The Diocese of Meru has developed a ritual called An Alternative Rite of Passage, which formally marks a girls passage into adolescence.

Prelates in several Latin American countries have spoken about the problem of drug trafficking in recent months.

Mauricio Funes (left), a journalist and proponent of liberation theology, was elected president of El Salvador on March 15.

While thirteen Israelis died during the conflict, at least 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, perished.

Homeland Security plans to deploy federal agents to the southern border region are receiving mixed reviews from Mexican Catholic officials.