Five years after he indicated he would be open to ordaining women, Bishop William M. Morris was removed from office.
The idea of the ordinariate is that people and priests can enter into communion with the Holy See together and stay together.
The homicide rate among youth in Latin America is double or triple the rate in all other parts of the world except Africa.
The Catholic community continues efforts to prevent the needs of the poor from being heaped onto the pile of expendables.
President Benigno Aquino said that he would risk excommunication to support a law that would allow artificial contraception in the Philippines.
With more legislatures taking immigration-related problems into state hands, President Obama renewed his commitment to a federal approach to reform.