Pope Benedict XVI met last month with the first ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the Vatican.

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

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Marquette University on May 6 rescinded a job offer to a Seattle professor who is openly gay, a decision that has been criticized by some faculty members and students.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

The church’s unwillingness to begin “a painful process of renewal” in the wake of the abuse scandal has left Diarmuid Martin “disheartened and discouraged.”

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.