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Archbishop Jose H. Gomez ordained Bishops Robert E. Barron, Joseph V. Brennan and David G. O’Connell to the episcopacy Sept. 8 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

As Israeli students began their second week of classes Sept. 6, thousands of students and teachers from Christian schools converged in front of the Israeli prime minister's office to protest government budget cuts to their schools.Chanting slogans, waving banners and signs, and pounding on metal

“Please rid us of this corruption and the leaders who have taken us down the wrong paths,” prayed Father Hugo Estrada. “We ask that you be with this great nation of Guatemala.”

Pope Francis said he was not “promoting the nullity of marriages, but the quickness of the processes.

Pope Francis issued two Apostolic Letters on Tuesday introducing reforms to questions of marital nullity.

“The crisis in Syria is now in its fifth year, and the neighboring countries where we’ve been providing assistance are running out of resources,” said Kim Pozniak, communications officer for Catholic Relief Service.

“May Every parish, every religious community, every monastery, every sanctuary of Europe, take in one family” Pope Francis appealed.

It is the fiat of the local bishop whether to allow the priests in his diocese to absolve those sins that result in automatic excommunication.

Workers across India are upset about labor policies they say are detrimental to their welfare, said Bishop Oswald Lewis of Jaipur.

Pope Francis will get a glimpse of leafy Central Park and thousands of waving New Yorkers on Sept. 25 when he makes “a historic procession” through the urban landmark.