A disgraced Scottish cardinal halted a plan to allow independent investigators to examine church child abuse files, said a retired archbishop.In a letter to the British Catholic weekly The Tablet, retired Archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow said that Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who earlier this year a

A leading Egyptian bishop said that many Christians, especially in the worst affected area of Minya province, Upper Egypt, are now too afraid to leave their homes after last week's 48-hour anti-Christian rampage by supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. Speaking with Catholic charit

A bishop who helped draft Egypt's constitution calls discrimination against Christians an "ideological and strategic" mistake by extremists.

Brother Gros participated in an untold number of dialogues with religious groups.

Will Catholic colleges and universities negotiate with their adjunct faculty members?

Paolo Dall'Oglio, S.J., has spent more than 30 years promoting Muslim-Christian dialogue.

The career of the former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican spanned 60 years.

Pope Francis responded to reporters' questions on his way home from Brazil.

"Today, either we stake all on dialogue, or we all lose," Pope Francis said.

Acknowledging the Catholic Church's heavy loss of members in Brazil over recent decades, Pope Francis told the country's bishops that they must learn to understand and sympathize with the reasons for people's disaffection and speak to them in a simpler language of beauty, mystery and lov