If the proposed document is approved, any baptisms performed in either Catholic or Presbyterian churches after that would be mutually recognized.

Reading speeches has been the main activity at Roman Curia assemblies for as long as anyone can remember.

The archbishop said ordaining married men is the most naturally pastoral response to every Catholic’s need for regular access to the sacraments.

Later this month a parish in western Poland will dedicate what it says is the world’s largest statue of Christ.

Baghdad residents were still trying to make sense out of an orgy of violence at the city’s Syriac Catholic cathedral on Oct. 31.

The State Department made it clear that it wants the independence vote in south Sudan set for January 2011 to be held as scheduled.