Obama cast his proposal as a moment to turn the page on a facility that for years has raised nettlesome legal questions.

San Diego Bishop Robert W. McElroy is challenging U.S. Catholics to take an active role in combating "the scourge of anti-Islamic prejudice.""We are witnessing in the United States a new nativism, which the American Catholic community must reject and label for the religious bigotry wh

Father Cardenal, expelled from the Jesuits in 1984 for his involvement in Nicaragua's Sandinista government, was readmitted in 1997.

Pope Francis "is inviting us to lower our voices. You cannot have a dialogue shouting."

"The commandment 'do not kill' holds absolute value and applies to both the innocent and the guilty."

Calling the accusations "without foundation and utterly false," the cardinal "strongly denies any wrongdoing.