Pope Francis is sending a cardinal and a bishop to Paraguay to investigate the activities of a priest previously accused of sex abuse in Pennsylvania, the Vatican’s diplomatic envoy to the Latin American country said.The cardinal and the bishop will visit the Diocese of Ciudad del Este, in the

Catholic bishops in the Central African Republic criticized their country's transitional government for failing to "revive hopes" and end months of conflict between Islamist and Christian forces despite international backing.The bishops said July 2 that the January election of Presiden

At conference in Mozambique the U.S. took a few tentative steps toward the land mine ban.

Bishop Eusebio Elizondo auxiliary bishop of Seattle and chairman of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops rsquo Committee on Migration called upon the Obama Administration on July 2 to reconsider its request to Congress for ldquo fast track rdquo authority to expedite the removal of unaccompa

In concurrence, Justice Scalia warns of "abortion-speech edition of the First Amendment."

The working document for the October 2014 extraordinary Synod of Bishops offers a picture of the Catholic Church today struggling to preach the Gospel and transmit moral teachings amid a "widespread cultural, social and spiritual crisis" of the family.The 75-page "instrumentum la