Despite a setback in the Senate, the acts seems to be gaining support on its merits.

Chiara Badano, a young member of the Focolare movement who died of bone cancer in 1990, was beatified on Sept. 25 in Rome.

The Haitian hierarchy will receive substantial support from partners in North America and Europe.

The governor-elect has promised to improve governance in one of Mexico’s most impoverished states.

In Britain Pope Benedict XVI called his listeners to recognize the interconnectedness of faith and reason, religion and politics.

The two Ugandan bishops argued that dialogue with the Lord’s Resistance Army would work better than a military option against it.