A formal response from the Leadership Conference of Women Religiousmay be weeks away.

In letters to congressional leaders, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urged a “circle of protection” around programs that serve “the least among us.”

Health care workers and aid agencies have stepped up efforts to prevent the water-borne disease from spreading during the rainy season.

A half-dozen states that have passed laws modeled on Arizona’s could all be affected by the outcome of Arizona v. United States.

American Catholics must resist unjust laws “as a duty of citizenship and an obligation of faith,” the U.S. bishops committee on religious liberty wrote in a statement.

A military attack on Iranian nuclear facilities would not, in view of the U.S. bishops and other Catholic leaders, be justified under Catholic teaching.