On May 25 Australian church leaders joined the global push for the canonization of the U.S. archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.

Spain's National Court orders the arrest of 20 former Salvadoran military officers for 1989 murders in El Salvador.

The burning and looting of the disputed town of Abyei in central Sudan has been condemned by the United Nations.

The bishops called for government action in the wake of the slaying of 27 workers on a farm owned by an alleged drug kingpin.

The Rockford Diocese shuts down its services after a new Illinois law requires placement with same-sex or cohabitating couples.

The U.S. bishops' spring general assembly consider of a new document on physician-assisted suicide.