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The sun shone on Catholic Charities, literally, Oct. 17 as Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory blessed a solar array installed on five acres of the agency’s land surrounding the Missionaries of Charity’s Gift of Peace home.

Turkey’s incursion into northeast Syria after the sudden pullout of U.S. military forces has raised moral questions on the responsibility to protect civilians caught in the middle of a new conflict.

As tropical forests fall victim to loggers, miners and ranchers, the Catholic Church must take sides to defend the Amazon region and its people, said a bishop whose Bolivian diocese has been ravaged by fire this year.

Next year’s march and rally, always held near the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, which legalized most forms of abortion on demand, will be Jan. 24.

“None of the above” is the fastest-growing religious identifier in the United States and now approximates the percentage of Catholics in the country.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the state will build a statue to St. Frances Cabrini, patron saint of immigrants, because New York City has rejected including a statue of the saint in the city’s initiative to increase the number of statues of women.

Resolving the global crises of world hunger and malnutrition demands a shift away from a distorted approach to food and toward healthier lifestyles and just economic practices, Pope Francis said in an Oct. 16 message.

The Honduran bishops’ conference said narcotics trafficking has permeated the Central American country’s institutions and accused politicians of colluding with organized crime.