Sister Carol Keehan decried reports that Catholic health care leaders are “working at cross-purposes” with the U.S. bishops on the abortion issue.
The Mexican Catholic bishops’ conference has criticized federal police for bursting into a Mass in the state of Michoaca.
A Zambian priest said the nation's information minister should resign for accusing the Catholic Church of complicity in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Topics to be addressed inclue governance; vocation promotion, admission and formation policies; and spiritual life and common life.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer detain families at a much-criticized former medium-security prison in Texas.
A Catholic archbishop said only a few people accused in last year's violence against Christians have been arrested.