“Money has to serve, not to rule," Pope Francis said. " We have created new idols."

Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted on May 13 of murder at his Philadelphia abortion clinic, but “nothing can bring back the innocent children he killed, or make up for the vulnerable women he exploited,” said Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M.Cap., of Philadelphia. In a statement on May

A truce among El Salvador’s street gangs has resulted in a dramatic reduction in homicides.

A bomb attack on May 5 at a church in Arusha, Tanzania, killed two people and wounded a dozen more. The Vatican nuncio, Archbishop Francisco Padilla, escaped unharmed. • A degeneration of religion is how the Vatican’s culture minister, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, on May 8 described Mexico

School-choice initiatives were given a big boost in late March by the Indiana Supreme Court.

The separation barrier would nearly surround a convent and its primary school.