For decades the U.S. bishops have supported a decent minimum wage for U.S. workers in keeping with church teaching on a just wage.

In recent years progress has been made on improving the affordability of Catholic schools by school voucher programs and tuition tax credits.

Portesting 10 years of detentions at at the military-run prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Women's religious orders from Indiana and Michigan are working to stop sex trafficking at this year's Super Bowl. 

An emergency decree came in response to four days of bombing attacks around Christmas that killed and wounded hundreds.

Leading politicians in the Netherlands have called for the resignations in the wake of a damning report on sexual abuse in the Dutch church.