In an interview just before his death the Jesuit cardinal described the church as “200 years out of date” and said the pedophilia scandals “oblige” the church to begin “a journey of transformation.”

On Aug. 29 Catholic Charities USA created a special Hurricane Isaac Fund to help fund its immediate and long-term response to widespread damage left behind by the storm.

Is there room to make a dent in the Democratic Party’s staunch support for abortion rights?

The U.S. Catholic bishops’ point man on sexual abuse said the situation is comparable to the Reformation, when “the episcopacy, the regular clergy, even the papacy were discredited.”

A federal judge in Oregon ruled on Aug. 20 that the Vatican was not the employer of a priest accused of molestation.

Syria “is the ultimate test of the responsibility to protect,” says U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.