The 2009 fiscal period marked the third year in a row that Vatican expenses outpaced revenues.
The norms will include abuse and the "attempted ordination of women" among the list of most serious crimes against church law.
More than 400 people packed the chapel of a La Salle Brothers' school near downtown Lima, Peru for a July 8 vigil in support of British Brother Paul McAuley, who has been threatened with expulsion from the country.
The Gospel challenges the idea that God sends suffering to test or challenge or strengthen us and insists that God desires only good for us. We do not have to badger God or bargain with God to give us good things.
The Gospel today shows us in parable form what the “greed that is idolatry” looks like.