In the midst of the unimaginable, Father Ekiert is telling his parishioners to show and live love daily—not just in a time of grief and horror.

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops praised the new ombudsperson office, noting it “has called attention to concerns and complaints involving Canadian-based and/or Canadian-registered companies which operate in other countries."

The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference welcomed the resignation as “long overdue.”

More than 800,000 Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as minors, could lose their legal status on March 5.

Father Moreno described the Hernández government as an authoritarian regime tilting toward a dictatorship. “It is a government that represents a threat to freedom of expression. It is a threat to defenders of human rights, and it is a government that threatens the fundamental rights of Honduran citizens.”

As same-sex marriage becomes more mainstream, the church holds the line on L.G.B.T. issues.