The last remaining Catholic adoption agency in England has filed an appeal against a decision forbidding it to turn away same-sex couples.

Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan has pledged a seat in a New York Catholic school for any child who wants it.

The president of the Philippine bishops’ conference denied reports that he threatened to excommunicate the president over his proposal to distribute contraceptives.

The governor-elect has promised to improve governance in one of Mexico’s most impoverished states.

If there are “large forces are at work against the poor,” so, too, there are good forces working for them.

International campaigners see Quebec as a vulnerable beachhead for legalizing euthanasia in Canada.

Despite a setback in the Senate, the acts seems to be gaining support on its merits.

Chiara Badano, a young member of the Focolare movement who died of bone cancer in 1990, was beatified on Sept. 25 in Rome.

The Rev. Robert Barron, right, a priest, teacher and evangelist, is launching “Word on Fire With Father Barron,” a weekly national program on WGN America.

Christians remain confident of their acceptance by the larger Muslim society as King Abdullah II remains a guarantor of their security.