The key accuser in the sex abuse case against ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has met with New York City prosecutors.

The Diocese of Pittsburgh in a statement emailed to Catholic News Service Jan. 11 confirmed that then-Bishop Wuerl informed the papal nuncio, Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, in 2004 of the allegation against the former cardinal.

"I was looking forward to this roundtable discussion, but there was no discussion unfortunately," Sister Pimentel told The Valley Catholic, newspaper of the Brownsville Diocese.

The federal government has started surveying land along the border in Texas and announced plans to start construction next month. Rather than surrender their land, some property owners are digging in, vowing to reject buyout offers and preparing to fight the administration in court.

Congo runner-up Martin Fayulu announced on Friday he will file a court challenge to the presidential election results.

Fewer than a third of U.S. Catholics rate the honesty and ethical standards of clergy as "very high" or "high."