“If the military objective is really regime change, that’s hard to justify in Catholic approaches to humanitarian intervention,” said one ethicist.
A Vatican official urged all involved in the global economy to work for the common good and the protection of the most vulnerable.
Deacon Bernard V. Nojadera has been named to head the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection.
Budget cuts in many states caused school districts to eliminate or reduce their summer nutrition programs.
Pope Benedict XVI prayed that the world's Gypsies no longer be subjected to prejudice, oppression and rejection.
The latest of the four Amazon activists to be killed was Adelino Ramos, a farmer and leader of the Corumbiara Peasant Movement.
Structural discrimination and a steady increase in violence in Pakistan are creating a system of two-tiered citizenship, one for Muslims and one for non-Muslims.