Gilberto Cardenas is director of the Institute for Latino Studies, which includes the Center for the Study of Latino Religions at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Ind.

He is professor emeritus of religious studies at Santa Clara University in California and author of Broken Bread and Broken Bodies: The Lord’s Supper and World Hunger.

Justice for Immigrants is a project of the Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform, a part of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. It is a coalition of many Catholic groups.

The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown, a leading clearinghouse for data on the Catholic Church, released a critique of the 2008 Pew numbers.

List of Pope John Paul II’s travels.

List of Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic voyages outside of Italy.

A list of Pope Paul VI’s travels outside Italy.

A Catholic News Service story in advance of Benedict XVI’s 2008 trip to the United States.

The Vatican stirred controversy in July 2007 when the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued this statement, with Benedict’s approval. The document, in the form of answers to various questions, sought to reaffirm the Catholic Church as the one church established by Jesus Christ. That restatement angered many non-Catholics, especially in the Protestant and […]