The 2012 Farm Bill became a casualty of this election season’s often rancorous budget debate.
In a speech to the UN, President Obama argued that in protecting free speech, even blasphemy must be tolerated.
The German bishops’ conference defended a decree that said Catholics who stop paying a church membership tax cannot receive sacraments.
Archbishop Dominique Mamberti called for the creation of a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East and elsewhere to demonstrate that “global security must not rely on nuclear weapons.”
The potential power, but also the limits, of an ecumenical proclamation of the Gospel is likely to be a key topic during the meeting in October of the Synod of Bishops.