Jeanne Atkinson, executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, said that the Justice Department's response "represents a continued defense of the inhumane practice of family detention."

Seventy years later "this tragic event still gives rise to horror and revulsion."

Bishop Cantu, who serves as chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace, said that as a U.S. citizen, he arrived in Hiroshima with a sense of "sorrow and repentance."

French and British Catholic bishops urged their governments to settle a growing refugee crisis around the port of Calais, where highways have been blocked and migrants from Africa and the Middle East have died attempting illegal crossings of the Channel Tunnel, or Chunnel."These men and women c

Aborting unborn babies who have disabilities decried by pro-life groups

Black churches will be redoubling efforts to maintain access to the ballot box.