"Your work, your passion, your commitment helped make the difference," President Obama said.

Cardinal DiNardo supports the Protect Life Act, which seeks to prevent the use of federal dollars for abortion coverage.

Sister Margaret Mary McBride concurred with an ethics committee’s decision to abort the fetus of a gravely ill woman.

Presenting the working document for the special Synod of Bishops on the Middle East, Pope Benedict XVI prayed for "just and lasting solutions" to the region's conflicts.

The law marked "a needed and long awaited beginning" of bringing greater justice to all citizens," the journal said.

U.N. human rights experts call upon Honduran government to guard the safety of journalists.