“The economy is still leaving too many people without work,” wrote Bishop Stephen E. Blaire in a letter to Congress.

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France rejected calls for secular values to be enshrined in his country’s constitution.

Anne Nolte, M.D., said that Catholic hospitals might have to decide whether to "practice civil disobedience.”

Hundreds are dead after weeks of ethnic violence between the Murle and Luo Nuer communities in South Sudan’s Jonglei State.

The divide between the administration and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in this renewed culture war is deep.

Cardinal Roger Mahony hopes that today’s young people will bring about a change in immigration policy.

After the new cardinals are created, all the “princes of the church” are scheduled to vote on the canonization of several new saints.

Seventy-nine percent of respondents said they would not allow abortion after the first trimester.

Prison chaplain Robert Coogan accused Mexican security forces of committing sacrilege after they tore apart his chapel during a raid on Jan. 24.

“We cannot—we will not—comply with this unjust law,” declared Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix in a diocesan letter.