The Rockford Diocese shuts down its services after a new Illinois law requires placement with same-sex or cohabitating couples.

The U.S. bishops' spring general assembly consider of a new document on physician-assisted suicide.

While the Palestinians welcomed the president’s proposal, they doubted that Israel would easily back away from Palestinian territory.

Five patients and one visitor at St. John’s Regional Medical Center lost their lives in the twister.

An expert says media distorts John Jay's report as using the "blame Woodstock" explanation for priests' abuse of children.

Reports on the status of U.S.-based religious congregations of women will be sent to the Vatican by the end of the year by the apostolic visitator's study of American religious life.