Sue Harvath, who has counseled post-abortive women, says it shouldn't matter whether Planned Parenthood is making money from the sale of fetal body parts because even the act of obtaining the body parts is manipulative and flat wrong.

Pope Francis' speeches to Congress and to the United Nations in late September will be less pastoral than homilies--more about policy.

'The Catholic community in the Holy Land is fearful and feels in danger.'

Jeanne Atkinson, executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, said that the Justice Department's response "represents a continued defense of the inhumane practice of family detention."

Seventy years later "this tragic event still gives rise to horror and revulsion."

Bishop Cantu, who serves as chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace, said that as a U.S. citizen, he arrived in Hiroshima with a sense of "sorrow and repentance."