“Achieving our objectives in Afghanistan and Iraq has moved to the top of the institutional military’s budget priorities,” Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said.

Cardinal Walter Kasper said a shared catechism could be one of the fruits of 40 years of dialogue among Catholic and Protestant churches.

German church leaders have criticized Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governing Christian Democratic Union for moving away from its Christian ethos.

Brown believes the decision on abortion “should ultimately be made by the woman in consultation with her doctor.”

Restoring the devastated infrastructure of the church in Haiti will take years, said Archbishop José H. Gómez, head of the bishops' office for Latin America.

A representative of Caritas Internationalis urged participants at the World Economic Forum not to neglect "the old, chronic problems of the world.”