After the new cardinals are created, all the “princes of the church” are scheduled to vote on the canonization of several new saints.

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France rejected calls for secular values to be enshrined in his country’s constitution.

Anne Nolte, M.D., said that Catholic hospitals might have to decide whether to "practice civil disobedience.”

Hundreds are dead after weeks of ethnic violence between the Murle and Luo Nuer communities in South Sudan’s Jonglei State.

The divide between the administration and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in this renewed culture war is deep.

Cardinal Roger Mahony hopes that today’s young people will bring about a change in immigration policy.

A British cardinal encouraged Christians to overcome the “three enemies of ecumenism” and to pray for the progress of closer unity.

Seventy-nine percent of respondents said they would not allow abortion after the first trimester.

Prison chaplain Robert Coogan accused Mexican security forces of committing sacrilege after they tore apart his chapel during a raid on Jan. 24.