Is it conceit or coincidence that a saint who was conceived without sin is the patron of a country that believes the same about itself?

Respect is key to the process of dialogue with local and national officials, Bishop Tamayo told the Texas Catholic Herald.

No single person can be trusted to wield power; therefore, power must be shared among many and policed by a legal system of checks and balances.

Politicians must act to assist workers as technology continues to transform jobs across Europe, said a committee of the European Union bishops' commission.

Exit polls indicated that immigration was second only to health care in the minds of voters.

After the midterms, there are a variety of other issues on which compromise is still achievable and where “good politics” can still be practiced.

For almost 20 years Polish scholars have been at the cutting edge of Holocaust research. But a law proposed this year threatened to change all that.

The homeownership gap between white and black families is as wide as it was in the 1960s, and the remaining barriers to integration include restrictive zoning and newly tightfisted banks.

The pope said he would visit North Korea “if an official invitation arrives.”

Salvadorans widely celebrated St. Romero as the Central American country's first saint. St. Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass in March 1980 and remains a reviled figure for some on the political right.