In recent months, market-run media have been distracting the public with an array of tumbling market digits. Investors wonder how their money was squandered, and we ordinary people wonder how funds unavailable to feed starving billions suddenly surfaced to bail out big business. The billions of dollars pumped in to re-capitalize cash-strapped ...

A priest who returned to his northern Philippine hometown of Baco recently says his experiences at pre-Christmas Masses in far-flung rural chapels showed him what it means to believe in and hunger for God. In this commentary for UCA News, Father Jeronimo Perez stresses that the life of people in communities ...

The Vatican's newly issued document on bioethical questions expresses firm opposition to the freezing, reduction, manipulation and destruction of human embryos in biomedical research and practice, and to their use for stem cell research. It also reiterates the Vatican's "no" to cloning, as well as artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilization and artificial ...

The head of the local Catholic Church’s tsunami relief effort says the Church has learned a great deal from working on this with other aid organizations and is better prepared for any future emergency. Father Damian Fernando, executive director of Caritas Sri Lanka, which is known in the country as the ...

Anti-Christian violence in eastern India's Orissa state is now at a lull, but how many people were killed or women raped there in recent months is still unknown. Nor does anyone know how many Christian houses were destroyed in the brutality that erupted on Aug. 24 and continued for seven weeks. The ...