Whooping cough is back because more and more parents are refusing vaccination.

U.S. physician-deacon has gone to Liberia to train and educate health care teams.

Catholic and Orthodox patriarchs urge Westerners to take humanitarian action.

The family under discussion when the extraordinary Synod of Bishops convenes at the Vatican on Oct 5 will bear little resemblance to the family of 50 or even 20 years ago The blended and extended families created by high rates of divorce remarriage and cohabitation -- along with the worldwide migr

Theologians from the University of St Thomas in St Paul Minn have released a letter to the Archbishop of St Paul ndash Minneapolis John Nienstedt They urge the archbishop to reintroduce himself to the ldquo people and parishes of the archdiocese rdquo to quot leave the legal talk to lawy

East Jerusalem tour heightens bishops' awareness of complexities