"I still feel like a Jesuit," said Bishop Milan Lach. "And I am grateful for what I received from the Society of Jesus."

From 2008 to 2013, the former cardinal kept up a public profile that included preaching at high-profile Masses, giving talks and accepting awards.

Italy's Catholic bishops will care for 100 migrants from Eritrea, ending a stalemate over where the asylum-seekers would go.

A global synod on priests could help the church to end the "terrible" scandals of clerical child abuse, an English bishop told Pope Francis.

God’s people deserve to know not just exactly what is being done but who is doing it.

"We must never stand outside the church to judge her; we are the church. We all are responsible for the church, including when there are problems in the church."