The German bishops’ conference defended a decree that said Catholics who stop paying a church membership tax cannot receive sacraments.
There are few issues in the 2012 presidential campaign on which the major candidates have more clearly differentiated opinions.
Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga called young people between 18 and 24 “an amazing pool of talent we must tap into if we are to relieve poverty in our lifetime.”
When Pope Benedict XVI stepped off the plane in Beirut on Sept. 14, he said he had come to Lebanon as a “pilgrim of peace.”
Demonstrators claim Pakistani officials raised funds for displaced families and offered to help resettle them but has not lived up to these commitments.