A lower court ruled that an Oregon man could try to hold the Vatican financially responsible for his sexual abuse by a priest.
An independent research group said the leading industrial nations complied with a little more than half of the promises made in 2009.
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio said that requiring personnel in military hospitals to perform abortions would place "a very heavy burden" on those who value human life.
The investigators are looking at contracts Cardinal Sepe made with government officials while he was head of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Manoj Pradhan, a leader of anti-Christian violence that rocked India’s eastern Orissa state in 2008, was convicted of murder on June 29.
The coast of Louisiana is off limits to its own residents, and their livelihoods and quality of life are suffering.