In its tax overhaul, GOP includes a repeal of a rule that limits the political speech of churches in exchange for tax-exemption.

“We don’t have that full communion yet but we definitely are on the way.”

"We long for this wound in the Body of Christ to be healed."

A "clean" bill would be "unencumbered with costly, punitive and unnecessary provisions."

Cardinal Ricardo Blazquez Perez of Valladolid, president of the Spanish bishops' conference, expressed sadness for the Catalonian declaration of independence.

All but three of the 16 prefectures in the country are still controlled by armed gangs, despite the presence of U.N. peacekeepers.