In an effort to comply more fully with international standards against financial criminal activity, the Vatican has hired an outside expert.

Nicaragua can now be added to the list of countries that no longer send soldiers for training to a U.S. Army school in Georgia.

As Caritas Pakistan workers entered the worst-hit areas in that country to assess damage, government officials reported that monsoon rains have devastated communities, claiming at least 78 lives.

Is there room to make a dent in the Democratic Party’s staunch support for abortion rights?

The U.S. Catholic bishops’ point man on sexual abuse said the situation is comparable to the Reformation, when “the episcopacy, the regular clergy, even the papacy were discredited.”

The attack at the Abbey of Latroun was condemned by the U.S. State Department, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and average Israelis.