After years of underrepresentation, African-American Catholics have apparently regained a proportional representation among those being ordained.

Leading human rights advocates, led by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, have written an open letter calling on the U.N. Security Council to take immediate action to prevent atrocities in Sri Lanka. A rebel force fighting the Sri Lankan government, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil E

Currently, if anything about Christianity is taught, it is about the Crusades and the Inquisition. There is no teaching of comparative religion.

Archbishop Sheehan introduced the governor to Pope Benedict, saying, Holy Father, this is our governor and he just repealed the death penalty.

Notre Dames invitation to President Obama is the latest in a series of controversies concerning the identity of Catholic colleges.

The Vatican called Irans president's recent remarks about Israel at a U.N. conference on racism as extremist and unacceptable