U.S. Catholic bishops join coalition of U.S. Christian leaders in an effort to protect social service, health and poverty-mitigation programs.

Some 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by repeated cycles of political and criminal violence, according to a World Bank report.

The Quakers consider the boycott a nonviolent move for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Denver’s Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said "there’s just an inability among the bishops together to speak clearly on this matter."

James Martin, S.J., author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything and America’s culture editor, will be honored with a Christopher Award on May 19.

The Vatican's moral advocacy has provoked criticism and even derision among some Italians.