The U.S.C.C.B. has withdrawn from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, citing the group’s “expanded and broadened agenda.”

Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet left his post amid rumors that the Vietnamese government had told the Vatican the archbishop must go.

One bishop believes New Hampshire flirts with great moral peril in retaining the death penality.

Marquette University on May 6 rescinded a job offer to a Seattle professor who is openly gay, a decision that has been criticized by some faculty members and students.

A Catholic Charities USA survey paints a vivid picture of the new realities of an increasingly distressed American middle class.

Is working against unions tantamount to committing mortal sin?

Instead of quelling the violence in the border community in Mexico, the posting of troops and federal police officers has only accelerated the bloodletting.

The pope made his strongest remarks to date on sexual abuse cases at a press conference on May 11 during his flight to Portugal.

A new poll shows that U.S. Catholics’ approval of Pope Benedict XVI’s job performance dropped a “dramatic” 15 points over the past two years.

If even moderate effects from climate change occur as predicted, millions of people will be uprooted in the near future.