President Obama's agenda includes many items on the wish-list of faith-based organizations.

HHS is unwilling to accommodate for-profit corporations in the same way as religious institutions.

Caritas Internationalis, the church’s global charitable agency, is launching an appeal to help communities in the Central African Republic that are still reeling from attacks on towns and communities by rebels. The rebel forces started to advance in northeastern C.A.R. in December 2012. A ceas

On Jan. 29 at St. Mary Cathedral in Austin, Tex., representatives of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and four Protestant denominations in the Reformed tradition signed an agreement that recognizes the validity of one another’s baptisms. • The New Jersey Death with Dignity Act, a b

"The road will be long and difficult because of resistance, conflicts and tensions."

"My strengths...are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.”