Official extortion and abuse are "one of the causes of the weariness and discouragement of our population," says Congo bishop.

Denver’s Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said "there’s just an inability among the bishops together to speak clearly on this matter."

James Martin, S.J., author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything and America’s culture editor, will be honored with a Christopher Award on May 19.

The Vatican's moral advocacy has provoked criticism and even derision among some Italians.

The Vatican and many of the Latin-rite bishops of India are not treating the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church with justice, an Indian bishop said.

Some 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by repeated cycles of political and criminal violence, according to a World Bank report.