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

An American spokesperson for Al Qaeda said that because of church scandals Catholics were 'fertile ground' for conversion.

A Vatican decree on May 2 established new norms for Caritas Internationalis, giving Vatican offices greater authority over the work of the umbrella group of 162 Catholic aid agencies around the world.

Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago on April 25 presided over the burial of some of the 120 fetuses stored at a medical examiner’s office.

John Brennan’s presentation was intended to pull back the curtains on the administration’s drone policy.

The archbishop of Jos said he could not understand why the government appeared powerless to prevent deadly attacks on Christians.

Hundreds of faith-based and grass-roots organizations are working alongside the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Bishop says allowing financial markets to regulate themselves does not serve national interests.

George Doty, a philanthropist noted for funding the repair of the dome of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, passed away in his home in Rye, N.Y., on April 24 at the age of 94.

The conviction of Charles Taylor should send a clear message that the era of impunity for heads of state guilty of war crimes is over.