“We need to get this mandate overturned” by the courts said Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski said of the requirement that many religious employers pay for contraceptives for their workers.

Nigeria is Africa’s largest oil producer, but it still struggles with poverty, widespread corruption and recurring ethnic violence.

Flooding at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdeson Oct. 20 temporarily closed much of the popular French pilgrimage site.

Some of Egypt’s Christians are concerned about Islamists in power, but there is greater freedom of speech than before the revolution.

Western nations must resist the pressure to “scapegoat, abandon, even kill, the elderly as a cost-cutting measure,” an Australian bishop said.

As a global synod convened in October, it may be fair to ask how the "new" evangelization differs from the "old."