America’s Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell has some ideas about the reasons behind the controversial, 11th-hour intervention from Rome at the U.S. bishops’ November meeting.

U.S. bishops: “It appears that this will be very harmful to families, raising fear among immigrant families already struggling to fulfill the American Dream.”

A summary of news and analysis on the sex abuse crisis facing the Catholic Church.

Sister Helen Prejean, an anti-death penalty activist and author of the book Dead Man Walking, joins Kevin Clarke to discuss Pope Francis' revision of the death penalty teaching.

Read to the approximately 500 participants at the conference, the letter notes the symbolic value of holding the meeting in Sarajevo and also notes that Pope Francis is simpatico with the goals and themes of the participants.

The New York Times recently visited America Media’s new headquarters on Avenue of the Americas in Midtown, Manhattan.

Mr. Klay will be awarded the $25,000 George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize at ceremony in September.

America Media was recognized by the C.P.A. for “setting an incredibly high bar for intellectualism and spirituality.”

“Priests and bishops get verbal abuse by being told, ‘How can you speak for women? You don’t know what it’s like!’”

Follow Father Arturo Sosa's first visit to the Jesuits in Canada!