Catholic bishops should find out what is keeping victims of sexual abuse around the world from coming forward, said Bishop R. Daniel Conlon.
Support for a religious exemption to the contraceptive mandate in the U.S. health reform plan is stronger among Catholics than among the general population.
María del Mar Muñoz-Visoso was named executive director of the Secretariat for Cultural Diversity in the Church.
The role of religion in society and its protection from a “deeply intolerant” militant secularism were themes in Rome and at Lambeth Palace in Great Britain last month.
Human rights activists in the Democratic Republic of Congo are denouncing acts of violence by police against Catholic parishes and marchers.
A new covert effort by Iran may represent its response to the assassinations of its nuclear scientists, widely attributed to Israel intelligence.