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

Hundreds of people are missing, according to sources inside Vietnam; many escaped into the bush fleeing from attack helicopters.

Nations and individuals have a duty to enact policies that mitigate global warming, said a Vatican-sponsored working group.

The fallout following the forced retirement of Australian Bishop William Morris has grown more caustic in recent days.

Reports continue to emerge of hundreds of migrants and refugees missing and presumed drowned in the waters off Libya.

Egyptian police must act more quickly against Muslim rioters, a Catholic bishop said after 12 people were killed in Cairo.

Thousands marched through Mexico City on May 8 calling for new public policies in the drug war and the end of violence.

The idea of the ordinariate is that people and priests can enter into communion with the Holy See together and stay together.

The homicide rate among youth in Latin America is double or triple the rate in all other parts of the world except Africa.

“John Paul II is blessed because of his faith—a strong, generous and apostolic faith,” Pope Benedict said on May 1.