The Catholic social tradition, President Obama said, still impresses me, and it can be a powerful force still in American society.

Supreme Court candidate Sonia Sotomayor took on detailed questions about court cases both famous and arcane.

The Group of Eight nations have pledged $20 billion to combat global hunger through greater support of agriculture

We think that a return to the country at this time could unleash a bloodbath, said Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga.

In addition to giving Obama a copy of his latest encyclical, the pope also presented a copy of a recent Vatican document on biomedical ethics.

Catholic bishops from Spain's Basque region kept quiet about the killing of priests by right-wing forces during the Spanish Civil War.