The appalling treatment of Christians around the world was the topic of a profoundly disturbing congressional hearing held on Capitol Hill yesterday.
A new report by the U.S. Department of Education found that students who attended a Catholic high school were almost twice as likely as their public school peers to graduate college.
Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio is reaping praise from across the country for a hard-hitting column published in his diocesan newspaper in which he calls the president's advocacy of abortion "shameful" and says those who voted for him "bear the responsibility for a step deeper into the culture of death."
A special invitation to engaged couples to spend Valentine's Day at an audience with Pope Francis has garnered such a tremendous response that the event has been moved out of the Vatican's Paul VI audience hall and into St. Peter's Square.
Archbishop Francis A. Chullikatt Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations (UN) challenged the UN on its notion that women's equality is dependent upon the negation of their procreative capacities and said women should not have to abandon what is essential to them in order to be treated equally in society.
A United Nations report on sexual abuse in the Church that included demands for revised teachings on matters of sexual morality has prompted a firestorm of criticism from U.S. leaders.
