The United States is "a nation of immigrants and we are proud of that," New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said at the Marian shrine of Knock.

Julian Bond was a long-time legislator and breaker of barriers.

The Tianjin Diocesan Social Service Center helped line up 60 volunteers to assist the government's rescue and relief work. Volunteers donated drinking water, clothes and other supplies to hospitals and temporary settlements for evacuees.

Sue Harvath, who has counseled post-abortive women, says it shouldn't matter whether Planned Parenthood is making money from the sale of fetal body parts because even the act of obtaining the body parts is manipulative and flat wrong.

Pope Francis' speeches to Congress and to the United Nations in late September will be less pastoral than homilies--more about policy.

'The Catholic community in the Holy Land is fearful and feels in danger.'