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Number of Americans with no religion is rising, survey says
A new Pew Research Center survey found 8 percent fewer Americans identify themselves as Christian, since 2007. Of the one-third raised Catholic, 41 percent no longer identify with Catholicism.
Scathing report calls for end to immigrant detentions
The expansion of immigrant detention centers -- up to 250 nationwide, costing $1.7 billion to maintain -- amounts to corporations profiting from "the misery of other human beings," said a bishop.
God will judge people on care for the poor, for the planet, pope says
"The planet has enough food for all, but it seems that there is a lack of willingness to share it with everyone," Pope Francis said May 12 during his homily at a Mass opening the general assembly of Caritas Internationalis.
When second quake hit, fear filled those waiting for relief materials
Relief officials said more than 57 people died in the May 12 quake, one of the many temblors that followed a magnitude 7.8-quake that hit April 25 and left more than 8,000 people dead.
‘Inequality of opportunity’ termed a root cause of societal decline
Robert Putnam, who has been charting the relative strength of the American social fabric since his 1995 book "Bowling Alone," said May 11 the "inequality of opportunity" in the United States is what is leading to a sense of despair and isolation among the nation's poor.
Cuban bishops say Pope Francis will visit their country Sept. 19-22
An advisory posted on the bishops' conference Facebook page May 11 said the visit will begin in Havana.
Benedictine nuns make their home on the range
Sister Maria Walburga Schortemeyer is at home wading through the mud and manure of a barnyard in boots, work pants, a fleece jacket, and her white veil.
N.Y. Catholic teachers seek wage increase, take part in rolling strike
The Federation of Catholic Teachers, which represents more than 2,600 teachers, said they were striking to protest what the group calls unfair labor practices charges it has raised against the archdiocese's Association of Catholic Schools.
Church groups welcome German bishops’ changes to employment rules
The German bishops' conference announced in early May it had adjusted the church's labor law to reflect "multiple changes in legal practice, legislation and society," and would no longer require the church's 750,000 employees to reflect Catholic teaching in their lifestyles.
Report details damage to Nigerian diocese where Boko Haram operates
A new report has revealed the scale of suffering of Nigerian Catholics at the hands of Boko Haram militants, with 5,000 Catholics killed in one diocese alone.