Catholic News Service

Fr. José Amaro Lopes de Souza, a priest connected with the Brazilian bishops' Pastoral Land Commission, was arrested and charged with extortion and money laundering.

Pope Francis has appointed Dominican Fr. Robert Christian, a master of students for the Dominicans' Western province, as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Chinese bishop Vincent Guo Xijin of Mindong was taken from his home by authorities March 26 but was back home the next day, according to a news report.

The president of the Polish bishops' conference cautioned Polish and Hungarian political leaders against fostering nationalism and xenophobia as both countries face European Union sanctions over their alleged authoritarian direction.

Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, "we need to ask ourselves if we are doing all we can to build the culture of love, respect and peace to which the Gospel calls us."

Though they may go to church and say they are people of faith, the corrupt and "mafioso" have absolutely nothing Christian about them, Pope Francis said.

The Archdiocese of Agana will sell its chancery property in Hagatna and relocate its offices in September.

"The move is part of archdiocesan-wide efforts related to the liquidation and sale of church property on Guam in the midst of challenging financial times and settlement of clergy sexual abuse cases," the archdiocese said in a statement.

The recent death of a Catholic priest in the Central African Republic demonstrates the delicate nature of peace in the country, where a cardinal and an imam have worked to build peace and unity.

Catholic leaders wrote to the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Homeland Security March 26 expressing concern for the low number of refugees to be resettled this year in the United States.

Celebrating Palm Sunday Mass with thousands of young people, Pope Francis urged them to continue singing and shouting "hosanna" in the world and following Jesus' example of outreach to the poor and suffering.

El Salvador's Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez called the upcoming canonization of Blessed Oscar Romero a "gift from God" and is optimistic it can bring hope to his troubled homeland and to the church.

After disagreement over funding a $25-million-grant request from the Vatican was leaked to the press, the leadership of the Papal Foundation has called for a period of reflection and re-evaluation.

The once "big tent" of the Democratic Party "now seems a pup tent," Cardinal Timothy Dolan wrote in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal March 23.  The party has abandoned so many issues Catholics cherish, he wrote.

Erileid Domingues said most of her indigenous village has, at one time or another, fallen ill due to contaminated water.

China's ruling Communist Party has dissolved its long-standing State Administration for Religious Affairs bureau and handed its functions to the party's United Front Work Department.

Less than two months after Pope Francis spoke out about environmental destruction in the Amazon basin during a visit to Peru, bishops from Latin America and the Caribbean have issued a pastoral letter calling the region's Catholics to an "integral ecological conversion."

A new book-length interview with Pope Francis is a guide to a "revolution of tenderness" in which young people and the elderly — both "thrown away" by society — band together to help change the world.

The chairmen of the U.S. bishops' pro-life and religious freedom committees said it was "deeply disappointing" that Congress omitted the Conscience Protection Act from the congressional funding bill for fiscal year 2018.

Georgia lawmakers are considering waiving the statutes of limitations on civil lawsuits claiming sexual abuse of young people against nonprofits and businesses, but not government agencies or public schools.

A political video filmed in a church scandalized some Catholics but also conveyed a sense that some upper class Mexicans recognize the unsustainability of a country where many live in poverty.