WASHINGTON – A Catholic professor barred from teaching courses on Catholicism after he defended in class the church’s teaching on homosexual behavior has been reinstated by the University of Illinois.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Promoting easy access to RU-486 and other drugs that induce abortion risks trivializing the termination of a pregnancy, said the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life.Read More

DOUGLAS, Ariz. – In the weeks leading up to the scheduled enactment of Arizona’s much-debated immigration law July 29, everyday activities and conversations conveyed a sense of a state under siege, particularly in Douglas, a town of 20,000 people on the Mexican border.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Tradition holds that St. Peter was jailed in Rome’s maximum security Mamertine Prison before he was crucified upside down and buried on the hill where St. Peter’s Basilica was later built.Read More

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The Rochester-based Catholic Education Foundation, an organization that provides scholarships nationwide to Catholic high school students, has announced a new effort to expand and strengthen the relationships that Catholic elementary and secondary schools have with Catholic colleges.Read More

LONDON – The British government has announced proposals to “hard-wire” abortion and contraceptive services into its overseas development programs.Read More

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – An 80-year-old priest was murdered July 28 in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where church officials say attacks on prelates have become distressingly common.Read More

PHOENIX – Arizona’s Catholic bishops were among religious leaders who praised a July 28 ruling that blocked enforcement of the most controversial sections of the state’s immigration law a day before it took effect.Read More