A Romanian appeals court ordered the demolition of a recently completed 18-story office building in Bucharest, built in defiance of various stop-work orders, because of the threat it would pose to its neighbor, the Cathedral of St. Joseph, in the event of an earthquake. • Msgr. Kevin Wallin, 61

The measures were taken because of the past diocesan failures to protect children from abuse.

Globally there are between 100,000 and 250,000 children who are victims of sex trafficking.

Visiting a Catholic grade school in Philadelphia on Jan. 18, Pennsylvania’s Gov. Tom Corbett lauded a new educational model for Catholic schools in the city. Independence Mission Schools is a management organization for 16 independent Catholic elementary schools located in mostly poor city nei

An influential U.N. committee charges that the windows violate children’s rights.

Social media need to promote more kindness than bluster and division, the pope said.