“The exclusion of girls...has always weighed heavily and represented a deep inequality within Catholic education,” the official Vatican newspaper said.

The U.S. Knights of Columbus are partnering with Project Medishare for Haiti to make prosthetic limbs available to Haitian children injured during the earthquake on Jan. 12.

Catholic dioceses continue to report mounting problems keeping their schools afloat amid a lackluster economy.

Catholic aid organizations are responding in Pakistan after the most intense monsoon rainsin the past 30 years caused landslides and floods.

Iraq's ancient Christian communities face extinction if a U.S. withdrawal is not accompanied by a comprehensive humanitarian response, says Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick.

Anglo-Catholic clergy are sharply divided over how to respond to the ordination of women as bishops.