After being denied in June, federal funding for the AmeriCorps Education Awards disbursed through the Catholic Volunteer Network has been restored to 75 percent of its 2010 funding.

The Obama administration and the U.S. bishops continue their rocky ride as the bishops increasingly focus on concerns related to religious liberty.

Cardinal Kurt Koch told an audience at Seton Hall University that Jews can look upon the cross as “the definitive Yom Kippur.”

Nuclear disarmament is a moral imperative that requires bold action from the world’s military powers, a U.S. cardinal and a former secretary of defense said.

On Oct. 28 Catholic bishops in India’s Karnataka State called for the dismissal of “false cases” against Christians who had been arrested after protesting attacks on three dozen churches in 2008.

Recent statistics show Europe having the most international migrants.

"No one should go hungry, wherever they live in the world,” said the National Catholic Rural Life Conference in the first of a six-part essay series.

The new Maronite Patriarch cautiously welcomed the political movement’s potential for transforming the region. But warned: “We must remain vigilant.”

As flooding persisted in Bangkok, Thailand, Catholic university students and staff used a Jesuit residence as a base for relief efforts for flood victims.

Through Oct. 9 of this year, 469,967 cases of the disease have been reported, leading to 6,595 deaths.