Proposed New Jersey Law Seeks to Replace Civil Unions with Same-Sex 'Marriage'

Defections from traditional marriage supports increase chance for passage, but Gov. Christie promises to stand in the way.

Washington State Bishops Fight for Marriage and the Common Good

Their letter comes in response to legislation under consideration in the state that would grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Bishops and Other Religious Leaders Warn Against Redefining Marriage

Letter urges support for 'the unique meaning of marriage and the precious gift of religious freedom.'

Is Bishop Slattery Privatizing Catholic Charities?

Tulsa Diocese’s parish-centered approach offers a model that draws the needs of the poor into the daily life of the faithful.

Supreme Court Unanimously Backs Hosanna Tabor Church, Decides in Favor of Religious Liberty

Constitutional scholars hail decision, a defeat for the Obama administration.

Irish Continue to Struggle Over Abuse Fallout as Nuncio Takes Up Post

Newly ordained U.S. Archbishop Brown heads to what one Irish writer describes as the 'most anti-Catholic country in Europe.'

Pope Hails Epiphany's Wise Men as Model at Ordination of Nuncios

Americans Get Attention, but Most New Cardinals Are European

Cardinal Egan Calls It ‘New York Day’ in Rome, with Red Hats for Archbishops Dolan and O’Brien — and a New York-born priest ordained bishop by Pope Benedict.

10 Years After the Scandals, Dioceses Still Recovering From Bankruptcy

Sex-abuse settlements cost millions of dollars and many Church properties.

U.S. Bishops Share Their Christmas Messages

Shepherds remind their flocks of the true meaning of the Nativity of Our Lord.

Archbishop Chaput Talks Politics ... and Philadelphia

Catholics need to be more involved in politics, Philly archbishop says.

Ad Targets Obama on Religious-Liberty Issues

Catholic Vote TV spot seeks to influence direction of Health and Human Services mandate.

Defending Religious Liberty and the Good

Dec. 4 issue editorial.

Kathleen Sebelius' Gruesome Moral Calculus

Health and Human Services policy may be furthering the exploitation of sex-trafficked women.

An American Goes to Dublin

Pope’s appointment of New York priest is an outside-the-box move. Msgr. Charles Brown, longtime official on Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith, is familiar with sex-abuse problem in Ireland.

The Supreme Court and Obamacare

As Catholics and pro-lifers welcome the news that the high court will take up the health-care issue, the future remains murky.

Bishops Urge Senate to Stop Funding Abortions, New USCCB Appointments and Anglican Ordinariate News

'At a time when Congress is tempted to reduce even vitally important programs that serve the poorest and neediest people here and abroad, the moral wrong of expanding subsidies for direct violations of human life and dignity is especially egregious,' Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities for the U.S. bishops’ conference, said in a Nov. 14 letter to senators.

Maryland Bishops: Thank God for Religious Liberty

'Everyone has the right to live in accordance with his or her particular religious beliefs,' they stated in recent letter.

German Bishops Publish Porn?

Mississippi to Vote on Personhood for Unborn Babies

Election Day vote would protect life from moment of conception, but could it threaten long-term efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade?