A pastoral letter to Chinese Catholics encourages the reconciliation of "official and unofficial" segments of the church community

An decision to seize the funds of several Catholic institutions in order to force them to comply with tax regulations was quickly reversed.

Will federal health reform be like "the Massachusetts plan on steroids," as one commentator predicts, or something else entirely?

The poverty rate is much higher in Africa, where about one in four people suffers from chronic hunger.

Nearly five dozen Christian leaders have pledged their support to President Obama in his effort to end the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Chaldean Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, of Mosul, Iraq, was honored posthumously with the 2009 Path to Peace Award in New York on June 9.