The U.S. bishops have asked preists to address “the terrible toll the current economic turmoil is taking on families and communities.”

Catholic Charities of New Orleans received $15 million to oversee an effort to provide direct assistance to Louisiana fishing families affected by the 2010 B.P. oil spill.

Deb Word finds shelter for homeless gay and lesbian teens who have been shunned by their own parents.

Archbishop José Gómez called upon the Obama administration and Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform

The bishop of Sendai, a region hard hit by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, has outlined the diocese’s reconstruction efforts.

The U.S. Census Bureau reported the highest number of Americans living in poverty in the 52 years it has collected such estimates.

They allege that “Vatican officials tolerate and enable the systematic and widespread concealing of rape and child sex crimes throughout the world.”

An estimated 73 percent of the population in affected areas say that they will have access to food for less than two months.

The suffering in Gaza remains widespread despite the easing of the Israeli blockade in 2010, say U.N. and church officials.

“People were angry at God [after 9/11] and they had every right to be, but that was not my experience,” said Chief Joseph W. Pfeifer of the NYFD.