Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor said that the pope’s “own house has to be put in order.”

The next pope will have a Catholic world in transformation to shepherd.

A Sri Lankan Catholic bishop and 132 Christian clergypersons and religious from different churches in north and east Sri Lanka have written a letter to the U.N. Human Rights Council appealing for an end to the crisis in that country. They charge that thousands of Tamil people, including church leade

German bishops agreed to permit certain types of “morning after” pills.

Kasper spoke of a “deaconess” role that could include special liturgical functions.

Ellen Grady, a member of the Catholic Worker from Ithaca, N.Y., does not like the idea that war has come home to her backyard. The war, in this case, is the country’s war on terror. The place where it is being waged is the Hancock Field Air National Guard Base near Syracuse, a little more than