As Catholics, "we understand the need...to [protect] the civil rights of our Muslim brothers and sisters,” Cardinal Theodore McCarrick said.

In a frank address in Milwaukee, Wi., Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin said "restorative justice is not cheap justice."

Violent protests by South Africans demanding better living conditions are a warning to the authorities, church leaders said.

Faith communities stood with working people and civil rights during the commemoration of the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

“A sin against the patrimony of the human race,” is how Robert Taft, S.J., described the condition of a collection of Eastern Christian manuscripts.

The ouster of Muammar el-Qaddafi appears to have become the accepted outcome of the international campaign in Libya.