The study reports that those who left the Catholic Church were more likely to have done so because they no longer believed in its teachings.

After years of underrepresentation, African-American Catholics have apparently regained a proportional representation among those being ordained.

Leading human rights advocates, led by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, have written an open letter calling on the U.N. Security Council to take immediate action to prevent atrocities in Sri Lanka. A rebel force fighting the Sri Lankan government, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil E

The visit is considered a new horizon of collaboration between Muslims and Christians, not only in Jordan, but in all the world.

AIDS and H.I.V. need to be our national priority," said Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg

Northern Irelands Catholic bishops have met with a loyalist group in an effort to build peace... and reconciliation, said Cardinal Seán Brady.