The U.S. bishops joined with other national organizations in amassing more than 50,000 signatures on a petition asking for a change in U.S. nuclear arms policy.

Members of theShalom community came to the Vatican on May 16 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their founding.

A bill that would have prohibited abortions motivated by the gender of the unborn child failed to gain a needed two-thirds majority.

The figure was below the number of 62 million reported in 2000, but the difference is due to a change in the way data was collected.

Speakers at a conference in Dublin called on the hierarchy to open structures of dialogue with lay Catholics about the future of the church.

It was “a very bitter truth” that “democratization of the Middle East does not bring relief to the people who live there.”