The Council for the Economy will include eight cardinals and bishops and seven lay experts.

As states strike down same-sex marriage bans, Archbishop Cordileone seeks constitutional remedy.

Pope Francis and 150 Cardinals discuss ministry to divorced and remarried Catholics.

Christ calls us to "travel the long, difficult, but liberating road to reconciliation."

The church must help people recognize "how beautiful, true and good it is to start a family."

A woman religious and two Catholic peace activists were sentenced to prison for several years for breaking into a Tennessee nuclear weapons facility and defacing its walls in July 2012.Sister Megan Rice, 84, of Washington, a member of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, was sentenced on Feb. 18 to