On a snowy Saturday in Flatbush, the snowy-haired independent senator from Vermont kicked off his second bid for president.

“We respect him and his office,” she told America. “But right now the issue of clergy sexual abuse is so much in the news, and the issue of covering up.” Cardinal Mahony, she said, is a “symbol of this.”

Though not usually seen as a major player in global politics, Canada has taken a leadership role in the Lima Group, which aims to restore “constitutional democracy” in Venezuela.

The Philippine journalist Maria Ressa was arrested on Feb. 13.

After the Vatican’s historic summit on the sexual abuse of children, Archbishop Mark Coleridge says “the mission of the church” is at stake.

The case gives the court an opportunity to clarify the test used to determine when government-sponsored religious displays violate the First Amendment.