President Benigno Aquino said that he would risk excommunication to support a law that would allow artificial contraception in the Philippines.

Some 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by repeated cycles of political and criminal violence, according to a World Bank report.

The Quakers consider the boycott a nonviolent move for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Denver’s Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said "there’s just an inability among the bishops together to speak clearly on this matter."

James Martin, S.J., author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything and America’s culture editor, will be honored with a Christopher Award on May 19.

The Vatican's moral advocacy has provoked criticism and even derision among some Italians.

The Vatican and many of the Latin-rite bishops of India are not treating the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church with justice, an Indian bishop said.

Violent protests by South Africans demanding better living conditions are a warning to the authorities, church leaders said.

The Supreme Court on April 4 tossed out a challenge to Arizona’s tuition tax credit program.

The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine concluded that a book by Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J., “contains misrepresentations, ambiguities and errors.”