For the first time London has achieved the sad distinction of exceeding New York City in homicides. Almost all the killings have been of young adults or juveniles by their peers.

Pope John Paul II described the Mafia as "a culture of death, profoundly inhuman, anti-Gospel, an enemy of human dignity and civil peace.''

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has vowed to prosecute anyone who enters the United States illegally.

On May 1, Cardinal George Pell will know whether he has to stand trial to face allegations of historical sexual offenses or not.

In California, Catholic opponents of the death penalty are trying to protect the largest population of inmates awaiting execution in the Western Hemisphere.