New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan will offer closing prayers at the Democratic National Convention Sept. 6, as he will at the Republican National Convention a week earlier

August 1 is the first possible date when health plans could be required to cover eight new preventive services for women under the Affordable Care Act.

According to one report, women there are almost 50 percent more likely than men to contract the disease.

The first days of deferred deportation for some young adults brought out tens of thousands of applicants to workshops around the country. 

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered a “sobering” global depiction of fundamental human rights at risk.

Participants in sex-selective abortions should be charged with murder, said the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India Office for Women.