The government of Vietnam has reprotedly intensified repression of indigenous Christians from the country’s central highland provinces.

As Catholics, "we understand the need...to [protect] the civil rights of our Muslim brothers and sisters,” Cardinal Theodore McCarrick said.

In a frank address in Milwaukee, Wi., Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin said "restorative justice is not cheap justice."

Violent protests by South Africans demanding better living conditions are a warning to the authorities, church leaders said.

The Supreme Court on April 4 tossed out a challenge to Arizona’s tuition tax credit program.

The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine concluded that a book by Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J., “contains misrepresentations, ambiguities and errors.”