A Vatican official said that World AIDS Day is “a privileged moment to relaunch the fight against social prejudice.”

Climate change is a faith issue because it deals with God's creation and with poverty, said Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa.

Congress must find ways to continue unemployment compensation to protect jobless workers and their families, said the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.

Pope Benedict XVI urged international leaders meeting in Durba, South Africa to reach a credible agreement on climate change.

The move marks a break with a cluster of recent ordinations made without Vatican consent.

Bevilacqua’s longtime secretary for clergy, Msgr. William Lynn, right, is charged with felony child endangerment and conspiracy.