Visiting a Catholic grade school in Philadelphia on Jan. 18, Pennsylvania’s Gov. Tom Corbett lauded a new educational model for Catholic schools in the city. Independence Mission Schools is a management organization for 16 independent Catholic elementary schools located in mostly poor city nei

An influential U.N. committee charges that the windows violate children’s rights.

Social media need to promote more kindness than bluster and division, the pope said.

An ecumenical campaign to halt gun violence issued a call for background checks.

“People are hiding in their homes, unable to venture out.”

Msgr. Francis D. Kelly, a priest of the Diocese of Worcester, Mass., was installed on Jan. 20 as a canon of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, becoming the first U.S.-born canon in almost 50 years. • Anti-abortion groups from 20 different countries launched a petition in January to