Francis' encyclical on environment to be released June 18.
A CNS video: Catholicism and the challenge of ecology.
Head of Evangelical Environmental Network: Climate action is pro-life, a moral imperative.
Catholic school teachers in Archdiocese of San Francisco say revised handbook could reduce legal protection against discrimination "based on personal life issues."
Tracy K. Smith's Ordinary Light: A Memoir explores middle-class blackness in the post-civil rights era.
Swift exit for controversial Archbishop Leonard, primate of Belgium. He turned 75 in May.
Phyllis Zagano: Imagining that women could image Christ.
Pope Francis picks up tab so homeless people can make pilgrimage to the Shroud of Turin.
Is solar energy on the rise? A brief look at changing attitudes and practices.