Cardinal Roger Mahony hopes that today’s young people will bring about a change in immigration policy.
After the new cardinals are created, all the “princes of the church” are scheduled to vote on the canonization of several new saints.
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France rejected calls for secular values to be enshrined in his country’s constitution.
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.
“We cannot—we will not—comply with this unjust law,” declared Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix in a diocesan letter.