The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life criticized a hasty public declaration of the excommunication of the girls mother and doctors.

Mauricio Funes (left), a journalist and proponent of liberation theology, was elected president of El Salvador on March 15.

The archbishop said Randall Terry told him the videotaped interview would be used to encourage pro-life workers in their cause.

The Notre Dame president called President Obama's upcoming visit "a basis for further positive engagement.

In a major address in Krakow, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz assessed the progress of Jewish-Catholic relations in Poland over the last half-century.

The Diocese of Meru has developed a ritual called An Alternative Rite of Passage, which formally marks a girls passage into adolescence.