The U.S.C.C.B. has withdrawn from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, citing the group’s “expanded and broadened agenda.”

Advocates for Haitian peasants said the company's donation of hybrid vegetable seeds will harm the island-nation's agriculture.

The bishop's driver was arrested as the prime suspect in the murder and confessed, Vatican Radio said.

Cardinal DiNardo supports the Protect Life Act, which seeks to prevent the use of federal dollars for abortion coverage.

Sister Margaret Mary McBride concurred with an ethics committee’s decision to abort the fetus of a gravely ill woman.

Presenting the working document for the special Synod of Bishops on the Middle East, Pope Benedict XVI prayed for "just and lasting solutions" to the region's conflicts.