The U.S. bishops declared suicide “a terrible tragedy, one that a compassionate society should work to prevent.”

The latest of the four Amazon activists to be killed was Adelino Ramos, a farmer and leader of the Corumbiara Peasant Movement.

"There are many terrible scenarios that are pointing to war," Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala said.

“If the military objective is really regime change, that’s hard to justify in Catholic approaches to humanitarian intervention,” said one ethicist.

Deacon Bernard V. Nojadera has been named to head the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection.

Structural discrimination and a steady increase in violence in Pakistan are creating a system of two-tiered citizenship, one for Muslims and one for non-Muslims.

For the first time, an international meeting of bishops’ representatives heard testimony from a survivor of clergy sexual abuse.

The U.S. bishops approved extensive revisions to their 2002 "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People" June 16. Bishop Blase Cupich said it must remain "a front-burner issue."

Budget cuts in many states caused school districts to eliminate or reduce their summer nutrition programs.

On May 25 Australian church leaders joined the global push for the canonization of the U.S. archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.