The head of Banghazi's diminished Catholic community spoke of a need to rebuild his congregation and of the uncertainties ahead.

Outside the White House on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, members of the Catholic Worker demonstrated for repentance and conversion of “ourselves, our society and our churches to the Gospel way of justice."

A new covert effort by Iran may represent its response to the assassinations of its nuclear scientists, widely attributed to Israel intelligence.

Catholic bishops should find out what is keeping victims of sexual abuse around the world from coming forward, said Bishop R. Daniel Conlon.

The role of religion in society and its protection from a “deeply intolerant” militant secularism were themes in Rome and at Lambeth Palace in Great Britain last month.

Human rights activists in the Democratic Republic of Congo are denouncing acts of violence by police against Catholic parishes and marchers.