Denver’s Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said "there’s just an inability among the bishops together to speak clearly on this matter."

James Martin, S.J., author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything and America’s culture editor, will be honored with a Christopher Award on May 19.

The government of Vietnam has reprotedly intensified repression of indigenous Christians from the country’s central highland provinces.

As Catholics, "we understand the need...to [protect] the civil rights of our Muslim brothers and sisters,” Cardinal Theodore McCarrick said.

In a frank address in Milwaukee, Wi., Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin said "restorative justice is not cheap justice."

Violent protests by South Africans demanding better living conditions are a warning to the authorities, church leaders said.