One of Peru’s top Catholic universities will continue to call itself Catholic and pontifical, despite a Vatican decree aiming to strip the titles.

Chinese government officials have forced seven priests who resisted the illicit episcopal ordination of the Rev. Joseph Yue Fusheng of Harbin to leave their parishes.

Oswaldo Payá, a prominent Cuban dissident, died in a car crash on July 22 in an incident that his family claims was “not an accident.”

The fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria is weeks away, but could be accelerated with more support from the Obama administration.

Congress should extend “tax credits that help low-income families live in dignity,” said Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, Calif.

During his ordination ceremony Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin renounced his role in the government-approved Catholic Patriotic Association.