The Vatican nuncio to the United Nations said that cold war conditions that encouraged the church’s “limited toleration of nuclear deterrence” no longer exist.

More than 200,000 people gathered for the March for America in Washington, D.C., in support of comprehensive immigration reform.

Continuing settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem presents a profound obstacle to reviving the Middle East peace process.

A priest who has spent three years behind bars for pro-democracy efforts was released from prison on March 15, his sister, above, said.

Ruptures appeared in what had been a unified front among national Catholic leaders.

A priest was found to have violated a condition of his reassignment by continuing to work with youth.