School-choice initiatives were given a big boost in late March by the Indiana Supreme Court.

The separation barrier would nearly surround a convent and its primary school.

The bishops’ conference has appealed to the nation’s doctors to return to work and save lives.

The audit found the fewest abuse allegations since the data collection began in 2004.

Nearly 2.5 million refugees are now scattered in camps in states bordering Syria.

The Rev. Scott Deeley, assistant chancellor of the Archdiocese of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, said that while the church “won’t be telling people how to vote” in the fall 2014 referendum on Scottish independence, “some bishops have indicated unofficially they’d have no p