Florida's seven-diocese network of church-affiliated emergency responders prepares for Isaac's landfall.

The fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria is weeks away, but could be accelerated with more support from the Obama administration.

Congress should extend “tax credits that help low-income families live in dignity,” said Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, Calif.

Catholic Relief Services said that its decision to allocate funding to the humanitarian organization CARE under a U.S. grant did not violate Catholic teaching.

One of Peru’s top Catholic universities will continue to call itself Catholic and pontifical, despite a Vatican decree aiming to strip the titles.

Chinese government officials have forced seven priests who resisted the illicit episcopal ordination of the Rev. Joseph Yue Fusheng of Harbin to leave their parishes.

Oswaldo Payá, a prominent Cuban dissident, died in a car crash on July 22 in an incident that his family claims was “not an accident.”

More than half of the bishops’ conferences in the Americas, Europe and Asia complied with a Vatican mandate to draw up anti-abuse guidelines by a May deadline.

India's Catholic Bishops are "deeply pained" by the "mindless violence" that has engulfed several districts in a northeastern Indian state.

The government of Sudan has continued a campaign of indiscriminate bombing, harassment and starvation against the Nuba people in South Kordofan Province.