The bishops' representatives expressed concern about the plan’s affordability and its failure to address questions about abortion coverage and the health of immigrants.

Pope Benedict XVI urged audiences to rediscover the spiritual and moral values that sustained their struggle for freedom from Communist rule.

Carl A. Anderson, the supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, has been named by Pope Benedict XVI to a council that supervises the Vatican bank.

The second Synod of Bishops for Africa will spotlight the “forgotten wars” that are no longer on the media radar but cause daily suffering.

Christian girls in the Gaza Strip are under pressure to wear Islamic dress in public schools.

Days after the deposed leader of Honduras returned to his country, church leaders met with both parties involved in the political standoff.