María del Mar Muñoz-Visoso was named executive director of the Secretariat for Cultural Diversity in the Church.

A new covert effort by Iran may represent its response to the assassinations of its nuclear scientists, widely attributed to Israel intelligence.

Catholic bishops should find out what is keeping victims of sexual abuse around the world from coming forward, said Bishop R. Daniel Conlon.

The role of religion in society and its protection from a “deeply intolerant” militant secularism were themes in Rome and at Lambeth Palace in Great Britain last month.

Human rights activists in the Democratic Republic of Congo are denouncing acts of violence by police against Catholic parishes and marchers.

A federal court in Mississippi on Feb. 2 dismissed a 10-year-old lawsuit accusing the Vatican of complicity in a scheme to bilk insurance companies for more than $200 million.