Over 3,000 Catholic leaders gathered to encourage unity on the path to becoming “evangelizing disciples.”

Jesus “has not called you to become ‘princes’ in the church,” the pope said, but “to serve like him and with him.”

El Salvador's first cardinal will have the eyes of his flock at home but also of the Washington area, home to approximately 260,000 Salvadorans.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the measure would leave 22 million more people without insurance.

More than a dozen leaders lined up shoulder-to-shoulder in a unified front to defend a broad array of domestic and international aid programs that, they argued, sustain life.

Retired Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco, who led the Northern California archdiocese for 18 years, died on June 22 after a long illness. He was 88.