"Time is running out for them."

Pope Francis' former finance minister was charged last year with offenses involving multiple complainants in his native Australia.

The Roman Catholic diocese where two priests were killed earlier this month has withdrawn all nuns from the hyper-violent city of Chilapa in southern Mexico.

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops praised the new ombudsperson office, noting it “has called attention to concerns and complaints involving Canadian-based and/or Canadian-registered companies which operate in other countries."

The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference welcomed the resignation as “long overdue.”

"I think they have chosen Somalia because there is no central authority," Bishop Giorgio Bertin said.