The justices discusses the constitutionality of Arizona’s school tuition tax credit program.

If the proposed document is approved, any baptisms performed in either Catholic or Presbyterian churches after that would be mutually recognized.

Reading speeches has been the main activity at Roman Curia assemblies for as long as anyone can remember.

The archbishop said ordaining married men is the most naturally pastoral response to every Catholic’s need for regular access to the sacraments.

The State Department made it clear that it wants the independence vote in south Sudan set for January 2011 to be held as scheduled.

Millions of stockpiled cluster submunitions have been destroyed years ahead of deadlines mandated by an August 2010 treaty.

A tsunami followed by a volcano eruption in Indonesia claimed more than 400 lives and displaced thousands.

Religiously mixed marriages have shown a significant decline among American Catholics in the past 20 years.

Thomas P. Gaunt, S.J., was named executive director of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University.

Baghdad residents were still trying to make sense out of an orgy of violence at the city’s Syriac Catholic cathedral on Oct. 31.