The complaints detail alleged attacks from 1955 through 1994 and claim some religious leaders knew of the exploitation and ignored it. 

“We chose to take these actions after seeing the continued desecration of the Earth, which we are to be stewards of,” Ms. Montoya told America.

The Vatican urged Maduro "to suspend ongoing initiatives such as the new Constituent Assembly, which, rather than fostering reconciliation and peace, encourages a climate of tension and confrontation and mortgages the future."

The remains of Father Solanus Casey were exhumed Aug. 1 as part of the canonical process that precedes the saintly Capuchin Franciscan friar's beatification Mass in November.

Legendary University of Notre Dame football coach Ara Parseghian died Aug. 2 at age 94.

Yonat Shimron interviews Arthur Caplan, the founding head of the Division of Bioethics at New York University, about the ramifications of a recent breakthrough in embryonic gene editing.