The California Catholic Conference said the bill "deliberately" targeted religious employers.

His appointment "reflects the growing presence of Hispanics in the Catholic Church here in the United States."

They will “accept and work with the new membership policy of the Boy Scouts of America" to admit girls.”

Trump's new immigration policy proposals “are not reflective of our country's immigrant past, and they attack the most vulnerable.”

Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of nine men and women, including a Franciscan priest who championed the land rights of farmers in Guatemala.

Spanish Cardinal: Catalonian call for independence is “an act of sedition, fraud and betrayal.”

Conditions in many parts of the world force women and girls to bear the burden of carrying out everyday chores for their families and communities, keeping many of them from getting even a basic education, the Vatican's U.N. nuncio said Oct. 6.

Father Stanley Rother is the first U.S. born priest to be named 'blessed'

In the aftermath of two earthquakes in the span of two weeks in Mexico church-based relief agencies have been on the ground providing food, shelter and repairs.

All the dioceses in Mexico were collecting food, water and other necessities for victims of the quakes and were seeking economic support from inside and outside the country.