An expert says media distorts John Jay's report as using the "blame Woodstock" explanation for priests' abuse of children.

Five patients and one visitor at St. John’s Regional Medical Center lost their lives in the twister.

Spain's National Court orders the arrest of 20 former Salvadoran military officers for 1989 murders in El Salvador.

While the Palestinians welcomed the president’s proposal, they doubted that Israel would easily back away from Palestinian territory.

On May 25 Australian church leaders joined the global push for the canonization of the U.S. archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.

Reports on the status of U.S.-based religious congregations of women will be sent to the Vatican by the end of the year by the apostolic visitator's study of American religious life.

Researchers acknowledged that there is uncertainty about the scale of future risk, but argued, “Uncertainty is not a reason for inaction."

“Things are worse than I thought,” said a volunteer for Caritas Japan cleaning up a community damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

The pope said he was following the conflict in Libya with “great concern” and was especially worried about the suffering of civilians.

The pope’s long-term aim is not simply to allow the old and new rites to coexist but to move toward a “common rite.”