The decision affects Bishop Michael J. Bransfield, retired bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, who left his position in September 2018 under a cloud of allegations of sexual and financial misconduct.

Bishop Brennan was "dismayed by the continued revelations concerning former Bishop Michael Bransfield's misdeeds."

The campaign "is a way the church can be an example," director Jill Rauh said.

When is it permissible, acceptable or prudent to deny the Eucharist to someone?

It may be 30 years since Cardinal Michael Czerny left the Jesuit-run Central American University in El Salvador, but it's not a place that has forgotten him.

As demonstrations pitting pro-government groups against pro-democracy protesters continue, a bishop urged Catholics to pray for the realization that all are humans and not "cockroaches or dogs."