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.

More than 40,000 people from 41 countries gathered in Anaheim, Calif., for the annual Los Angeles Religious Education Congress.

Pope Benedict XVI’s brief visit to Latin America ended in Cuba after a private meeting with the aging former President Fidel Castro.