President Obama said he would be happy to avoid ethical disputes if alternatives to embryonic stem-cell research turn out to be equally promising.

The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life criticized a hasty public declaration of the excommunication of the girls mother and doctors.

Mauricio Funes (left), a journalist and proponent of liberation theology, was elected president of El Salvador on March 15.

The archbishop said Randall Terry told him the videotaped interview would be used to encourage pro-life workers in their cause.

The Notre Dame president called President Obama's upcoming visit "a basis for further positive engagement.

Africans preparing for the October 2009 Special Assembly are emphasizing the need to find ways to address poverty, justice and reconciliation.