Fighting in Aleppo, Syria, has not spared the residences of the local Melkite and Maronite Catholic archbishops.

New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan will offer closing prayers at the Democratic National Convention Sept. 6, as he will at the Republican National Convention a week earlier

August 1 is the first possible date when health plans could be required to cover eight new preventive services for women under the Affordable Care Act.

According to one report, women there are almost 50 percent more likely than men to contract the disease.

The first days of deferred deportation for some young adults brought out tens of thousands of applicants to workshops around the country. 

The fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria is weeks away, but could be accelerated with more support from the Obama administration.