IMAGE: CNS Photo/Paul Jeffrey By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The objective of the upcoming Synod of Bishops for the Amazon is to highlight the need for religious, political and social...

IMAGE: CNS photo/Larry Downing, Reuters By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who served on the court for nearly 35 years, died July 16 in Fort...

IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By James Ramos HOUSTON (CNS) -- At the Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo near Rome, Jesuit Brother Robert Macke finds his work as the curator of meteorites for the...