Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died Aug. 11, was "a woman of ardent faith and generous public service" said the apostolic nuncio to the United States.

Sister Carol Keehan decried reports that Catholic health care leaders are “working at cross-purposes” with the U.S. bishops on the abortion issue.

The Mexican Catholic bishops’ conference has criticized federal police for bursting into a Mass in the state of Michoaca.

A Zambian priest said the nation's information minister should resign for accusing the Catholic Church of complicity in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Topics to be addressed inclue governance; vocation promotion, admission and formation policies; and spiritual life and common life.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer detain families at a much-criticized former medium-security prison in Texas.