Just days before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opens its annual fall meeting, German Cardinal Walter Kasper, often called the pope’s theologian, had a not-too-subtle message for the American church.Kasper told a standing-room-only crowd at Catholic University that Pope Francis wants

The last thing Abu Sabah ever pictured in his life was being homeless and living in a tent in a park somewhere.But that is exactly what he and his family are experiencing in this Christian enclave outside of Irbil, the capital of the Kurdistan area of northern Iraq.Sabah, a Syriac Catholic from the

Church protests beating deaths of Christian couple accused of blasphemy.

'Some procedures are so long and so burdensome...people give up.'

Cardinal says mergers tough to take, but address population shifts

The interreligious Vatican-sponsored gathering will take place Nov. 17-19.