Compassion has often counted as a "maverick" quality in the Holy See. Now Republicans are calling it political.
The Pope's recent encyclical will fall on receptive ears.
Worried about the government accepting gay marriages? It only pretty recently started accepting straight ones.
Pope Benedict XVI was typecast in American eyes as 'God's Rottweiler,' an unyielding champion of the Catholic Church's conservative side. But the real Benedict had more dimensions, some of them at odds with with his North American stereotype.
Data from one Catholic parish suggest donations to the general operating funds dip on Sundays when a second collection is held.
Better teachers in Catholic high schools and more semesters of math and language boost student earnings later in life, a study shows.
East and West remember World War II in different ways.