A campaign by faith-based investors and investment networks, spearheaded by a New York congregation of women religious, led the nation's largest consumer bank to announce it intended to stop investing in private prison firms.

By next year, Jewish people everywhere will know what World War II-era Pope Pius XII did -- and didn't -- do to save Jewish lives during the worst ethnic cleansing in human history.

A Catholic News Service contributor in Caracas, Venezuela, was taken by military counterintelligence officials after his home was raided early March 6.

The sides also that said agreements will be reached by consensus and that those agreements will be the foundation of what the talks produce.

There is a growing awareness about solitary confinement, a practice affecting 60,000 to 100,000 people in U.S. prisons.

Women religious in India who spoke up against the clergy who abused nuns claim that they are being treated as outcasts and appealing to the Vatican for protection.