Sue Krentz is a conflicted woman, coping with the complicated reality of life near the Mexican border.

Clerical sexual abuse has provoked repugnance throughout the church, said a recently appointed Vatican official.

A new U.S. initiative seeks to make some amends for the widespread use of defoliant Agent Orange in Vietnam.

“The exclusion of girls...has always weighed heavily and represented a deep inequality within Catholic education,” the official Vatican newspaper said.

The U.S. Knights of Columbus are partnering with Project Medishare for Haiti to make prosthetic limbs available to Haitian children injured during the earthquake on Jan. 12.

Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the floods have made their way to the major cities of Karachi and Lahore.

Anglo-Catholic clergy are sharply divided over how to respond to the ordination of women as bishops.

Access to water is just one small part of the complex of political and structural discord between Israelis and the Palestinians.

Pope Benedict XVI praised the 108 nations that have adopted a treaty banning the stockpiling and use of cluster bombs.

Iraq's ancient Christian communities face extinction if a U.S. withdrawal is not accompanied by a comprehensive humanitarian response, says Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick.