For the past 60 years, St. Augustine High School in New Orleans has allowed the corporal punishment of students.

Church leaders around the world expressed their distress at the murder of Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s minister for minorities.

The Vatican has voiced concern over the loss of life in Libya, the targeting of peaceful protesters and “the indiscriminate use of force.”

Why has the secretary general of Caritas Internationalis been prevented from applying for a second term of office?

Southern Africa’s bishops warned elections would be “dangerously premature” if held this year.

“There is a better understanding of religion in Cuba,” said the archbishop of Santiago, Cuba. “But it’s not easy; it is a process.”