“Things are worse than I thought,” said a volunteer for Caritas Japan cleaning up a community damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Bishop Blase J. Cupich says the report offers an explanation, but not an excuse for the abuse scandal that engulfed the United States.

The pope said he was following the conflict in Libya with “great concern” and was especially worried about the suffering of civilians.

The fallout following the forced retirement of Australian Bishop William Morris has grown more caustic in recent days.

Reports continue to emerge of hundreds of migrants and refugees missing and presumed drowned in the waters off Libya.

Egyptian police must act more quickly against Muslim rioters, a Catholic bishop said after 12 people were killed in Cairo.