Rising seas due to global warming have rendered the coastal high-water marks more obsolete by the day. That is especially true in the Miami area, which every media report on sea-level rise seems to profile as ground zero for deluge doom.

Pope Francis will create five new cardinals at a consistory in Rome scheduled for June 28.

Catholic bishops pledged to be more proactive in laying out a vision for comprehensive immigration reform.

Live updates from Indianapolis as the bishops gather for their annual spring meeting.

United Nations sources report that as many as 30 million are threatened by hunger in South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen—and 20 million “are at immediate risk.”

Winners are losers in the United Kingdom's snap election.