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

"The people are dissatisfied with the Islamist regime," one priest said.

The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development has endorsed a national campaign to end the practice of sentencing people under the age of 18 to life in prison without possibility of parole. “While there is no question that violent and dangerous youth need to be con

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.

In a recently released letter sent last Advent, Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, vice president of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei,” advised members of the Society of St. Pius X “to abandon the harsh and counterproductive rhetoric that has emerged over the past years.&rdquo