The pope calls for international institutions to serve the most vulnerable.
Eddie Panlilio, a Catholic priest, has requested a dispensation from his priestly duties so that he may run for president of the Phillipines.
The Christian village of Korianin the Punjab province of Pakistan was destroyed July 30 in a violent raid by thousands of Muslims.
The recent disclosure that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was developing a program to track down and kill individual Al Qaeda leaders has re-awakened legal and ethical questions about assassination as a tool of national policy. The program had been kept hidden from Congress until this spring,
Arch. Rowan Williams responds to the Episcopal Church's recent decision to ordain non-celibate homosexuals.
“Our church’s ties with state and society here have significantly improved recently,” said a member of the Russian Catholic bishops’ conference.