Patricia Zapor, Catholic News Service

Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Thomas P. Melady, who served in several diplomatic posts and continued to play a...

Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Less than a year into his pontificate, Pope Francis has become a phenomenon far beyond the Catholic Church. As Time magazine...

Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Fifty prominent Catholics have signed a letter to The Catholic University of America questioning the decision to accept a $1...

Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has issued guidelines for how federally funded faith-based programs should be administered, ranging from explanations of what...

Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — In what the organizer described as “an experiment in hope in trying times,” a prominent theologian and another speaker known...

Catholic News Service The direction the courts will take with other cases related to religious employment is far from clear, but the Supreme Court's Jan....

Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court Jan. 11 upheld the idea that a "ministerial exception" to anti-discrimination laws means the church can't be...

Catholic News Service WASHINGTON -- African-American Catholics are much more engaged in their church on a variety of levels than are white Catholics, concludes the...

Catholic News Service BALTIMORE -- A new ordinariate, functionally similar to a diocese, will be created Jan. 1 to bring Anglicans into the U.S. Catholic...