Chinese government officials have forced seven priests who resisted the illicit episcopal ordination of the Rev. Joseph Yue Fusheng of Harbin to leave their parishes.

Oswaldo Payá, a prominent Cuban dissident, died in a car crash on July 22 in an incident that his family claims was “not an accident.”

The fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria is weeks away, but could be accelerated with more support from the Obama administration.

Congress should extend “tax credits that help low-income families live in dignity,” said Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, Calif.

Catholic Relief Services said that its decision to allocate funding to the humanitarian organization CARE under a U.S. grant did not violate Catholic teaching.

One of Peru’s top Catholic universities will continue to call itself Catholic and pontifical, despite a Vatican decree aiming to strip the titles.