The Vatican's moral advocacy has provoked criticism and even derision among some Italians.

The Vatican and many of the Latin-rite bishops of India are not treating the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church with justice, an Indian bishop said.

In a frank address in Milwaukee, Wi., Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin said "restorative justice is not cheap justice."

Violent protests by South Africans demanding better living conditions are a warning to the authorities, church leaders said.

The Supreme Court on April 4 tossed out a challenge to Arizona’s tuition tax credit program.

The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine concluded that a book by Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J., “contains misrepresentations, ambiguities and errors.”