A judge set a five-day trial for Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun and four other defendants who face charges of failing to properly register a now-defunct fund to help anti-government protesters.

During a Mass for peace, Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe decried the killings of four Muslim men in New Mexico since last November.

The oldest member of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Jozef Tomko, died in Rome at the age of 98.

Bishop Álvarez, facing the threat of incarceration, maintains a message of love and hope.

“We are at a different place than we were a week ago in the church’s walk with Indigenous Peoples, a better place.”

“The ideal bishop does not exist,” Sister Reungoat said. But he has to be a shepherd who is “close to the people entrusted to him, he has to know how to involve priests, laity and religious, and people of different generations.”