On March 30 Anna Maria College in Paxton, Mass., rescinded its invitation to Victoria Kennedy, widow of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, to speak during spring commencement ceremonies.

A half-dozen states that have passed laws modeled on Arizona’s could all be affected by the outcome of Arizona v. United States.

American Catholics must resist unjust laws “as a duty of citizenship and an obligation of faith,” the U.S. bishops committee on religious liberty wrote in a statement.

A military attack on Iranian nuclear facilities would not, in view of the U.S. bishops and other Catholic leaders, be justified under Catholic teaching.

The Irish Association of Catholic Priests said it is “disturbed” that the group’s founder, Fr. Tony Flannery, is under investigation by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Caritas Internationalis is launching an appeal for a preventive strike on hunger in West Africa’s Sahel region.