The proposed law strives to provide justice for victims of religious violence and and hold law enforcement officials accountable for not stopping the violence.
Sculptures and statues of the priest and scientist Matteo Ricci, S.J., are appearing throughout China.
Fifteen percent of all Americans, including nearly 1 out of 4 children, live in poverty.
A three-day conference on issues faced by Catholic advocates of comprehensive immigration reform is scheduled for Jan. 11-13 in Salt Lake City.
The new secretary general of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, said “I see my appointment as recognition from the bishops of the work that women are doing in this part of the world.”
The head of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development praises a new federal rule to cut down on the amount of toxins emitted from coal- and oil-fired plants.
Christians represent nearly a third of the estimated 6.9 billion 2010 global population.