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Will Catholic colleges and universities negotiate with their adjunct faculty members?

House Republicans double down on cuts; Bishop Pates calls for compromise.

Secretary of State John Kerry and the U.S. State Department significantly raised the bar both on the ambitions and expectations for upcoming negotiations between West Bank Palestinians and the State of Israel. The wild card left out of the new discussions, which have set the laudable but so far elus

Paolo Dall’Oglio, S.J., has spent more than 30 years promoting Muslim-Christian dialogue.

The career of the former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican spanned 60 years.

Pope Francis responded to reporters’ questions on his way home from Brazil.

“Today, either we stake all on dialogue, or we all lose,” Pope Francis said.

Acknowledging the Catholic Church's heavy loss of members in Brazil over recent decades, Pope Francis told the country's bishops that they must learn to understand and sympathize with the reasons for people's disaffection and speak to them in a simpler language of beauty, mystery and lov

RIO DE JANEIRO (CNS) — Pope Francis spent the morning and early afternoon of July 26 with about two dozen young people from different countries and diverse backgrounds, in a range of encounters that illustrated his characteristic emphasis on inclusion and reconciliation.The most dramatic meeting wa

RIO DE JANEIRO (CNS) — Even at its stormiest, the Sea of Galilee doesn't have waves like those pounding Copacabana beach, but Pope Francis asked young Catholics to imagine they were with Jesus on the seashore and he was asking them to follow him and share his love with others.In his first remar