A federal judge in Oregon ruled on Aug. 20 that the Vatican was not the employer of a priest accused of molestation.

Syria “is the ultimate test of the responsibility to protect,” says U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Since they tend to be Catholics, many Latinos are against abortion and same-sex marriage, but it's still rare to encounter an active Republican Latino. 

The U.S. bishops called the nation’s persistently high numbers of unemployed a “moral failure” in its annual Labor Day statement.

Creighton’s School of Medicine remains “confident it can maintain the Catholic and Jesuit values” among students training in the Phoenix hospital.

Experts say high levels of family violence in Latin America are not surprising in a region that also has the greatest gap between rich and poor.