The Catholic Church has condemned the practice and questioned whether the new law is constitutional.

The case poses a new challenge to the Vatican, amid growing demands in overwhelmingly Catholic France for a reckoning with decades of sexual abuse by the clergy.

The Vatican appointed a retired China-friendly cardinal to head the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong on Monday.

The supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus said senators have no business questioning a federal judicial nominee's membership in the Knights.

There is plenty of work to be done at the border that does not include building a wall.

Lawmakers voted late Jan. 3 to keep Jesuit Father Patrick J. Conroy, the 60th chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, in the post for the next two years.