Almost 44 million Americans now live below the poverty line, and 21 percent of all U.S. children are growing up poor.

The last remaining Catholic adoption agency in England has filed an appeal against a decision forbidding it to turn away same-sex couples.

Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan has pledged a seat in a New York Catholic school for any child who wants it.

The president of the Philippine bishops’ conference denied reports that he threatened to excommunicate the president over his proposal to distribute contraceptives.

Despite a setback in the Senate, the acts seems to be gaining support on its merits.

Chiara Badano, a young member of the Focolare movement who died of bone cancer in 1990, was beatified on Sept. 25 in Rome.