Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton, Calif., said the U.S. Senate’s failure “to support even modest regulations on firearms” is “a failure in moral leadership to promote policies which protect and defend the common good.”

All ideological interpretations of Christianity falsify the Gospel by looking at it purely through the intellect, without regard to love or beauty, Pope Francis said April 19.

New Zealand’s Catholic bishops described as “bizarre” parliament’s vote that discards the understanding of traditional marriage when it approved a same-sex marriage law.

Marriage “is a unique relationship between a man and a woman” and it’s not the government’s place to “define or redefine” it, Bishop Francis Malooly of Wilmington, Del., said in an April 15 letter to Delaware legislators.

Young Chinese adults born under the nation’s one-child policy are planning their families based on personal experience as Chinese government officials debate the future of the state’s population control strategy.

Kansas and Virginia have joined the growing list of states that this year have passed new restrictions on abortion.

Pope Francis embraces one of the 10 priests he ordained in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Women embrace after an April 19 interfaith prayer service at the Church of the Assumption in West, Texas.

Finding safe and effective cures to disease and illness does not have to go against moral and ethical principles; that was the message of a three-day conference at the Vatican on adult stem-cell therapies.

The Catholic faith is not centred simply on a book – the Bible – but on Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh, Pope Francis said.

A major European regulator will conduct an expanded evaluation of the Vatican’s latest efforts to prevent money laundering and the funding of terrorism.

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Sudan’s security force expelled the secretary-general of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference and two other religious brothers.

Catholics need to know that marrying someone from a different Christian community or, even more so, from a different religion will create extra challenges in their marriage, a Vatican official said.

Russia’s Catholic Church expressed surprise and concern after a wave of raids on its parishes and charities, part of a government clampdown on organizations with foreign links.

Members of the local organizing committee for World Youth Day say that, with the recent election of an Argentine pope, they expect up to 2.5 million young people at the international event in Rio de Janeiro.

North Korean defectors living in Seoul pray for peace and reunification of the divided Korean Peninsula, during a church service in Seoul April 7.

Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu was named the 2013 Templeton Prize winner for his work in advancing the ideals of love and understanding in his native South Africa and around the world.

The Berlin Archdiocese is continuing to try to sell unused churches and even listed a church on eBay.

Pope Francis has named Argentine Bishop Mario Aurelio Poli as his replacement in Buenos Aires.