WASHINGTON – Catholic organizations filing comments on the federal Department of Health and Human Services’ mandate that health insurance plans cover contraception and sterilization and a proposed religious exemption registered their strong disapproval.Read More

AMMAN, Jordan – For some Muslim and Catholic analysts, the papal visit to Jordan May 8-11 could spark a renewal of interreligious relations.Read More

WASHINGTON – More than 200 Catholic theologians, scholars and social justice advocates cite the executions of Troy Davis in Georgia and Lawrence Brewer in Texas in mid-September as the impetus for their call to abolish the death penalty.Read More

The murder of a Loyola College in Maryland sophomore, along with her three family members, has sent the school’s campus reeling.Read More

WASHINGTON – The proposed religious exemption to the federal mandate that health insurance plans cover contraceptives and sterilization is “wholly inadequate to protect the conscience rights of Catholic hospital and health care organizations,” the head of the Catholic Health Association told the Department of Health and Human Services.Read More

MEXICO CITY – The executive director of the Canadian Catholic bishops’ aid organization has expressed confidence in the groups that receive agency funds in Mexico, even though five of those partners have been accused of promoting policies that violate church teaching.Read More

BERLIN - Arriving in Germany for a four-day visit, Pope Benedict XVI strongly defended the church’s voice in public affairs and said that to dismiss religious values as irrelevant would “dismember our culture.”Read More

“Gallup looks at moral issues in the United States” (CR, April 9) contains several misleading statements about the Catholic faithful. It implies that 40 percent of Catholics find abortion acceptable, 63 percent accept embryonic stem cell research, 67 percent accept sex between unmarried men and women and 61 percent believe that it is alright to...Read More