The insert urged readers to press Senate leaders to support efforts to “incorporate long-standing policies against abortion funding and in favor of conscience rights” in health reform legislation.

Life issues from the test tube to the deathbed are on the agenda for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ fall general assembly.

The Diocese of Bridgeport said it was disappointed that the court declined to hear its final petition regarding the ordered release of documents from sex abuse cases.

A Vatican official argues that since globalization has an impact on the movement of people, it must be the focus of Christian attention.

Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroitdescended 1,200 feet into the salt of the earth to bless a newly made statue and shrine to St. Barbara, the patroness of miners.

Archbishop Burke, 61, will help shape the episcopate not only in the United States but also around the world.