Clerical sexual abuse has provoked repugnance throughout the church, said a recently appointed Vatican official.

A new U.S. initiative seeks to make some amends for the widespread use of defoliant Agent Orange in Vietnam.

One passenger was killed, the other seriously injured when the car crashed in California.

“The exclusion of girls...has always weighed heavily and represented a deep inequality within Catholic education,” the official Vatican newspaper said.

The U.S. Knights of Columbus are partnering with Project Medishare for Haiti to make prosthetic limbs available to Haitian children injured during the earthquake on Jan. 12.

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran encouraged Catholics and Muslims to work together in overcoming violence among followers of different religions