The bishops called for government action in the wake of the slaying of 27 workers on a farm owned by an alleged drug kingpin.
Reports on the status of U.S.-based religious congregations of women will be sent to the Vatican by the end of the year by the apostolic visitator's study of American religious life.
The Rockford Diocese shuts down its services after a new Illinois law requires placement with same-sex or cohabitating couples.
“They have become even stronger, even after the death of Bin Laden," said the outgoing head of Caritas Asia.
The U.S. bishops' spring general assembly consider of a new document on physician-assisted suicide.
On May 25 Australian church leaders joined the global push for the canonization of the U.S. archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.