Mary McCord, lead counsel for the Diocese of Brownsville, said there's no reason to believe that the area where federal officials want to build the wall near the chapel is of particular importance or shows heightened activity that would make it crucial to U.S. security.

President Donald Trump told the National Prayer Breakfast that his administration would defend the right of faith-based adoption agencies to place children in families based on firmly held religious beliefs.

The largest association of religious sisters in the United States called Thursday for an overhaul of the male-led leadership structure of the Catholic Church.

That many religions exist in the world is a fact, but what that plurality communicates to believers about God is a question that theologians are still discussing.

According to Father Elias Mallon, a Franciscan Friar who is the external affairs officer of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, the likelihood of a two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict appears ever unlikely.

In a new series on child sexual abuse called "Children at Risk," the Catholic News Service reports on how extensive the abuse is in the United States and particularly in the Catholic Church.