An organization based in Silver Spring, Md., known as CLINIC--Catholic Legal Immigration Network--has called the Department of Homeland Security's decision not to include more recent arrivals from war-torn South Sudan (apart from those already here) as part of the Temporary Protected Status designation as "morally reprehensible."

The preliminary investigation into allegations of sexual harassment of adults and financial improprieties by Bishop Michael J. Bransfield, formerly of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, has been completed and will be forwarded to the Vatican for final judgment.

"In an already drug-ridden society, lethal pills are suddenly on the loose," Archbishop Lori said. "In the face of Maryland's epic opioid crisis, this is not good public policy."

The Catholic Church in Kenya has refuted claims that it has been condoning corruption and allowing corrupt politicians to donate what they have stolen from public coffers to the church.

Four Catholic Relief Service staff members on their way to a training session in Nairobi, Kenya, were among the passengers aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed moments after takeoff in the east African nation.

I want them to know that God plays an important part in their lives; and sometimes in my prayer with them, I say, “God loves every one of us, and each one out on that court is your brother; so no matter who it is, we are all creatures of God.