On Jan. 13 Francis delivered his first annual address to the Vatican diplomatic corps.

At hearing, Catholic leaders call 'No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act' "long overdue."

New coalition will educate, innovate and act to reduce poverty in communities across the US.

On the morning of Jan. 25, 2013, participants in the Washington, D.C., March for Life received an unexpected boost in the form of a Twitter message from Pope Benedict XVI."I join all those marching for life from afar, and pray that political leaders will protect the unborn and promote a culture

Congregation seeks to overcome the moral and administrative legacy of disgraced founder.

30 archdiocesan priests have been accused of abusing minors at in past years, most before 1988.

Bishops in the Central African Republic say the crisis has been mischaracterized.

John Dear 'declines' to return to the order, but says he will continue his ministry.

The Senate rounded up 60 votes on Jan. 7 to ward off a potential filibuster on a bill that would resume the federal payment of emergency unemployment benefits. The Senate has yet to vote on the bill, and leaders in the Republican-controlled House have said they would not consider it until savings we

Former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Thomas P. Melady, who served in several diplomatic posts and continued to play a role as "citizen-scholar" long past the age when most people would have retired, died on Jan. 6. He was 86.Melady died at his Washington home of a brain tumor, which docto