“The economy is still leaving too many people without work,” wrote Bishop Stephen E. Blaire in a letter to Congress.

“We have seen escalating violence, brutal crackdowns and tremendous suffering by the Syrian people,” said U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Vatican officials dismissed as baseless the accusations of “corruption and abuse of power” made by the archbishop who is now apostolic nuncio to the United States.

Anne Nolte, M.D., said that Catholic hospitals might have to decide whether to "practice civil disobedience.”

Hundreds are dead after weeks of ethnic violence between the Murle and Luo Nuer communities in South Sudan’s Jonglei State.

The divide between the administration and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in this renewed culture war is deep.