The German bishops’ conference defended a decree that said Catholics who stop paying a church membership tax cannot receive sacraments.
There are few issues in the 2012 presidential campaign on which the major candidates have more clearly differentiated opinions.
When Pope Benedict XVI stepped off the plane in Beirut on Sept. 14, he said he had come to Lebanon as a “pilgrim of peace.”
Archbishop Dominique Mamberti called for the creation of a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East and elsewhere to demonstrate that “global security must not rely on nuclear weapons.”
Demonstrators claim Pakistani officials raised funds for displaced families and offered to help resettle them but has not lived up to these commitments.
A new study notes an uptick on social intolerance and government restrictions on religion around the world and in the United States between 2009 and mid-2010.
About 3,000 students at Fordham University cheered as the comedian Stephen Colbert joined Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York and James Martin, S.J., in a discussion of faith, humor and spirituality.
The potential power, but also the limits, of an ecumenical proclamation of the Gospel is likely to be a key topic during the meeting in October of the Synod of Bishops.
It is an ongoing criticism this election season that the problem of poverty in the United States is not being addressed by either campaign.