The Leadership Conference of Women Religious calls Vatican's assessment 'flawed.'
Indigenous protests against mines turn violent after opposition members killed and arrested.
It was “a very bitter truth” that “democratization of the Middle East does not bring relief to the people who live there.”
On May 10 Pope Benedict XVI formalized the status of the 12th-century German mystic St. Hildegard of Bingen, “inscribing her in the catalog of saints.”
“We cannot be silent in the face of words or actions that would undermine the institution of marriage," Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said.
House Republicans passed a 2013 budget reconciliation package that included cuts in social services despite an appeal from the U.S. bishops.