Cardinal Kurt Koch told an audience at Seton Hall University that Jews can look upon the cross as “the definitive Yom Kippur.”

Nuclear disarmament is a moral imperative that requires bold action from the world’s military powers, a U.S. cardinal and a former secretary of defense said.

On Oct. 28 Catholic bishops in India’s Karnataka State called for the dismissal of “false cases” against Christians who had been arrested after protesting attacks on three dozen churches in 2008.

The new document on the economy was welcomed by many Catholic progressives as timely and dismissed by Catholic conservatives as misinformed.

"No one should go hungry, wherever they live in the world,” said the National Catholic Rural Life Conference in the first of a six-part essay series.

The new Maronite Patriarch cautiously welcomed the political movement’s potential for transforming the region. But warned: “We must remain vigilant.”