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News/International

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the new president of Mexico, celebrates with his supporters July 1 after his victory in Mexico City.

Church leaders pledge to cooperate with new Mexican president

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MEXICO CITY – The Mexican bishops conference extended congratulations to presidential election winner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who won a landslide victory on an agenda of change and promises to combat corruption and poverty.
Bishop Joseph C. Bambera of Scranton, Pa., talks to an immigrant woman, recently released from U.S. custody, July 1, at a Catholic Charities-run respite centre in McAllen, Texas. A delegation of U.S. bishops has traveled to the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas, to learn more about the detention of Central American immigrants at the U.S.-Mexican border.

Bishops stress 'urgent' need to reunite children with parents after visiting border

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SAN JUAN, Texas -- In less than 48 hours, a group of Catholic bishops saw the faces of triumph and relief from migrants who had been recently released by immigration authorities, but ended their two-day journey to the border with a more "somber" experience, visiting detained migrant children living temporarily within the walls of a converted Walmart.

A woman prays the rosary in 2012 outside the Marie Stopes clinic in London. Members of Ealing Council, in the west of the capital, voted April 10 to establish a buffer zone around a Maria Stopes clinic, banning public prayer and offers of assistance to women within 100 meters of the building.

UK judge dismisses challenge to 'buffer zone' around abortion clinic

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MANCHESTER, England  -- A judge dismissed a legal challenge to quash the first "buffer zone" around a United Kingdom abortion clinic.

English bishop cautions Catholics on palliative care in state-funded hospitals

English bishop cautions Catholics on palliative care in state-funded hospitals

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MANCHESTER, England – An English bishop warned Catholics to be alert to the possible deliberate killings of seriously ill patients in state-funded hospitals.
Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaide, Australia, leaves the courtroom after his May 22 conviction in covering up clergy sexual abuse. He was sentenced to one year detention on July 3.es next steps.

Australian archbishop given one-year sentence in child sex abuse case

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ADELAIDE, Australia -- Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaide was sentenced to 12 months of house arrest following his conviction for failing to inform police about child sexual abuse allegations.

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne, Germany, and Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising distribute Communion during Cardinal Woelki's installation Mass at the cathedral in Cologne Sept. 20, 2014.

German bishop announces communion for Protestant spouses in 'individual cases'

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PADERBORN, Germany – According to a regional newspaper report, Archbishop Hans-Josef Becker of Paderborn has decided to allow Protestant spouses of Catholics living in his diocese to receive holy Communion "in individual cases."
Steve Schuh, county executive of Anne Arundel County, Md., holds a copy of the Capital Gazette June 29, the day after a gunman killed five people and injured several others at the Annapolis, Md., newspaper.

Catholics remember victims killed in Maryland newspaper shooting

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BALTIMORE – While Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore offered prayers and support for the families and loved ones of five people murdered June 28 at the offices of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, a former longtime sports editor for the newspaper mourned his friends as exceptional journalists who also were good human beings.
Pope Francis leads a consistory to create 14 new cardinals in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 28.

Credible leadership serves others, Pope tells cardinals at consistory

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VATICAN – Defending the weak or hopeless and becoming a servant to those most in need is the best promotion one can ever receive, Pope Francis told new and old cardinals.
Justice Anthony Kennedy is seen at the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington June 1, 2017. The 81-year-old Californian said June 27 that he will retire July 31.CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters

Justice Anthony Kennedy to retire from U.S. Supreme Court

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WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced June 27, the last day of the Supreme Court's current term, that he is retiring July 31.
Archbishop Charles Scicluna and Father Jordi Bertomeu Farnos, who investigated clerical sexual abuse in Chile, are seen during a meeting with priests inside a church in Osorno, Chile, June 15. The Vatican-appointed investigators were on a mission in Osorno to promote healing in the wake of a clerical sexual abuse crisis.

Pope accepts resignation of two more Chilean bishops

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VATICAN – In the wake of a papal investigation into abuse of power, negligence and the cover-up of sexual abuse in the church in Chile, Pope Francis has accepted the resignations of two more of the country's bishops: Bishops Alejandro Goic Karmelic of Rancagua, 78, and Horacio del Carmen Valenzuela Abarca, 64, of Talca. 

Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising speaks during the opening service of the plenary meeting of the German bishops' conference in Ingolstadt, Germany, Feb. 19. The conference issued a statement saying that, at the plenary meeting in September, the bishops would continue to examine the issue of communion for Protestant spouses of Catholics.

German bishops resume Communion debate, ignoring Pope's request

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WASHINGTON – The German bishops' conference said when the bishops meet in September, they will continue to examine the issue of Communion for Protestant spouses of Catholics.
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