Throughout the Arab world, long-simmering resentments and aspirations for a different political order appear to have ignited almost overnight.

Catholics' representation in Congress exceeds their representation in the U.S. population.

What are the next steps for those who would like to see changes or improvements in that law?

“An unprecedented aspect of the Tunisian revolution...is the emerging of a new course of action and expression."

More than a dozen Catholic Relief Services aid workers were evacuated after receiving “indications of threats."

Samuel Ruiz García, right, known as the champion of the poor and indigenous in southern Mexico, died on Jan. 24