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

"There is no more important issue that will define the U.S.-Mexico future relationship than getting immigration reform right,” said Mexico’s ambassador.

Parishioners of Kita Sendai Catholic Church have been busy delivering food aid to victims of the deadly quake and tsunami.

Faith communities stood with working people and civil rights during the commemoration of the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

“A sin against the patrimony of the human race,” is how Robert Taft, S.J., described the condition of a collection of Eastern Christian manuscripts.

The ouster of Muammar el-Qaddafi appears to have become the accepted outcome of the international campaign in Libya.