“If the military objective is really regime change, that’s hard to justify in Catholic approaches to humanitarian intervention,” said one ethicist.

Deacon Bernard V. Nojadera has been named to head the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection.

 “They have become even stronger, even after the death of Bin Laden," said the outgoing head of Caritas Asia.

On May 25 Australian church leaders joined the global push for the canonization of the U.S. archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.

Spain's National Court orders the arrest of 20 former Salvadoran military officers for 1989 murders in El Salvador.

The burning and looting of the disputed town of Abyei in central Sudan has been condemned by the United Nations.