Back in 1991, close to nine in 10 Catholics in the United States were white. Today, that number is down to 55 percent—and that percentage will continue to drop.

Kenya's highest court finds irregularities in the vote tally from this summer's election, orders new vote within 60 days.

In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, the Cardinal Sarah says the church must proclaim that homosexuality is “at odds with nature.”

“I cannot compare it to anything,” Donna Markham, O.P., president of Catholic Charities USA, says of the storm. “The expanse of it…it is bigger than Katrina. The loss of life has not been as great as Katrina, but the damage is just monumental.”

Proponents say the program will help to provide scholarships for 6,000 to 10,000 students in religious and other private schools statewide.

What were once church-dividing teachings no longer define the majority of American Protestant belief.