A priest who was removed from his parish for improvising prayers during the celebration of Mass has now been suspended from all other priestly duties.
During his ordination ceremony Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin renounced his role in the government-approved Catholic Patriotic Association.
A Colorado federal justice rules that the HHS requirement that even objecting employers must provide contraceptives free of charge to their employees has potential for violating religious freedom.
More than half of the bishops’ conferences in the Americas, Europe and Asia complied with a Vatican mandate to draw up anti-abuse guidelines by a May deadline.
"We have only one land, and we must protect her. So, we will march to say no to the balkanization of the country."
India's Catholic Bishops are "deeply pained" by the "mindless violence" that has engulfed several districts in a northeastern Indian state.
Forty-four percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in “the church or organized religion” today.