The U.S. Catholic bishops’ point man on sexual abuse said the situation is comparable to the Reformation, when “the episcopacy, the regular clergy, even the papacy were discredited.”

The attack at the Abbey of Latroun was condemned by the U.S. State Department, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and average Israelis.

The Franciscan Action Network called on Barack Obama and Mitt Romney “to acknowledge that climate change is an extremely critical ecological and moral issue

The U.S. bishops called the nation’s persistently high numbers of unemployed a “moral failure” in its annual Labor Day statement.

Creighton’s School of Medicine remains “confident it can maintain the Catholic and Jesuit values” among students training in the Phoenix hospital.

Experts say high levels of family violence in Latin America are not surprising in a region that also has the greatest gap between rich and poor.