WASHINGTON – Although a new poll showed a significant decline in support for abortion in the United States, an official of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life secretariat said the results would have been even more strongly pro-life if they had been grouped to truly reflect the current state of U.S. abortion law.Read More

Leaders of the Maryland Catholic Conference made progress on a wide range of issues during this year’s Maryland General Assembly, but a reluctant legislature failed to give them a lot of what they hoped for.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI’s addition of two meetings with Jews in the United States underlined the pope’s continuing interest in improving Catholic-Jewish relations.Read More

Every institution and religious and social movement that wants to live, survive and thrive into the next generation places great emphasis in the grooming and support of its leaders. That is why almost every document that discusses the evangelization of African Americans promotes indigenous leadership and the importance of African-American vocations.Read More

VATICAN CITY - A Synod of Bishops is a little like a short-run Broadway play, and after four years of preparation the curtain is about to go up on the African synod at the Vatican.Read More

VATICAN CITY – A Vatican official said that, for the first time, the world’s Muslim population is greater than the number of Catholics.Read More

WARSAW, Poland – Catholic Church leaders have been working to head off a possible conflict about pastoral jurisdiction over the estimated 1.5 million Polish migrants in the United Kingdom.Read More

PHOENIX – When Aimee was 13 years old, her mother kicked her out of the house.Read More