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In the 10 years since U.S.-born Sr. Dorothy Stang was killed by ranchers in the Amazon, the risks have not decreased with 106 people assassinated due to land conflicts in Para state alone, said one of the coordinators of the Brazilian bishops' Pastoral Land Commission.

They come in search of a better life, but hundreds perish in the rugged desert near the U.S.-Mexico border every year.

Many prisoners, once released, are poorly equipped to shake off the conditions that led them to commit the crimes which put them in jail in the first place. A two-year-old program in five states is changing that.

Pope Francis made a surprise stop at a shantytown on his way to visit a Rome parish Feb. 8.

Saying their letters had touched his heart, Pope Francis wrote a personal response encouraging teens in southern Arizona in their work aiding migrants.

Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero will be beatified in San Salvador "certainly within the year and not later, but possibly within a few months," said Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the postulator or chief promoter of the archbishop's sainthood cause.

Catholics are being asked to participate in an online questionnaire about the family ahead of the Ordinary Synod of Bishops that takes place in Rome this October.

After decades of debate within the church, Pope Francis formally recognized that Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero was killed "in hatred of the faith" and not for purely political reasons.

Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted announced today the launch of a questionnaire for use at the October 2015 Ordinary Synod of Bishops on the theme,...

More than 1,000 students, teachers and parents filled a muddy lawn at the State Capitol Jan. 28. Their purpose and energy were far more solid.