Rio Summit looks at environmental goals from 20 year distance.

Members of theShalom community came to the Vatican on May 16 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their founding.

How well is U.S. society preparing for autism’s coming of age?

A bill that would have prohibited abortions motivated by the gender of the unborn child failed to gain a needed two-thirds majority.

Congress should support laws that promote transparency among companies that mine in the Congo, said the president of Congo's bishops' conference.

Speakers at a conference in Dublin called on the hierarchy to open structures of dialogue with lay Catholics about the future of the church.

It was “a very bitter truth” that “democratization of the Middle East does not bring relief to the people who live there.”

On May 10 Pope Benedict XVI formalized the status of the 12th-century German mystic St. Hildegard of Bingen, “inscribing her in the catalog of saints.”

“We cannot be silent in the face of words or actions that would undermine the institution of marriage," Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said.

House Republicans passed a 2013 budget reconciliation package  that included cuts in social services despite an appeal from the U.S. bishops.