Nearly a decade after the slaying of 72 migrants on a ranch in northeastern Mexico, church leaders and migrant shelter operators are once again demanding the authorities properly investigate one of the country's most notorious crimes.

They twist Mary's image and acceptance of God's will into a false role model of a woman who is God's "slave," compliant, submissive and passively resigned to the fate of her son, who dies at the hands of the powerful," ... "They use religion to "enslave and not help people live an authentic religiosity,"

Father Michael Zacharias, 53, pastor of St. Michael the Archangel Parish in Findlay, about 45 miles south of Toledo, was arrested by members of the Northwest Ohio Child Exploitation and Trafficking Task Force after celebrating morning Mass Aug. 18 at the church.

Our Catholic schools across the diocese have begun fall classes online the past couple weeks and are ready to open their campuses to students as local and state health deems it safe. 

En la Audiencia General de este miércoles 19 de agosto, Papa Francisco afirmó que la opción preferencial por los pobres “es un criterio-clave de autenticidad cristiana”, “una exigencia ético-social que proviene del amor de Dios”, que impulsa “a pensar y a diseñar una economía donde las personas, y sobre todo los más pobres, estén en el centro.”

Pope Francis leads his general audience in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Aug. 19, 2020. The pope said that the church's preferential option for the poor includes making sure any vaccine developed for COVID-19 helps everyone. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Two notable exceptions: University of Notre Dame and Boston College.

During the school's second week of in-person classes, the university reported that some of its coronavirus cases could be traced to an off-campus party.

The problem of disenchantment primarily has to do with a perceived loss of meaning or value, or at least a perceived threat of such a loss.

Mexico needs 200 million plus Covid-19 vaccine doses to cover its 125 million population, but a major pharma company says it could take until April of next year to effectively launch production

Raúl Castaneda, de 48 años, no se sentía bien y experimento fiebres fluctuantes y cansancio durante las dos semanas antes de su muerte debido al COVID-19 en abril. Pero no quiso buscar atención médica.

Cuando el obispo Mark J. Seitz de El Paso, Texas, rezó por los fallecidos en el primer aniversario del tiroteo masivo en un Walmart de su ciudad (a principios de Agosto), realizó este solemne homenaje en medio de la pandemia por el coronavirus que ha mantenido gran parte del público estadounidense en modo de distanciamiento social.

SYDNEY (CNS) -- In an exclusive interview prerecorded and aired at a U.S. conference, Cardinal George Pell reminded his audience how important the church in the U.S. is for world Catholicism and Western civilization

A human rights activist and church social worker was shot dead in the Philippines Aug. 17 in what colleagues say was most probably an extrajudicial killing carried out by state agents.

We hurt from out of our own hurt. I was reminded of this recently after contact with “Vanessa,” the daughter of a former girlfriend from the time before I met my wife.

“A lot of the advice you'd get was about the opposite sex, and so when you're sitting there, crushing on your friend next to you at the women's talk, you're like, ‘Oh, what do I do?’”

Pope Francis prays before a statue of Our Lady of Loreto at the Sanctuary of the Holy House on the feast of the Annunciation in Loreto, Italy, March 25, 2019. Pope Francis began the Jubilee Year of Our Lady of Loreto Dec. 8, 2019, and has extended the celebration to December 2021. (CNS photo/Vatican Media via Reuters)

A sign seen in Milwaukee Aug. 16, 2020, advertises the Aug. 17-20 Democratic National Convention, which will be a largely virtual event due to the coronavirus pandemic. The party had picked Milwaukee as its convention city months ago, before the pandemic forced the cancellation of large and small in-person events. (CNS photo/Brian Snyder, Reuters)

People protest presidential election results during an opposition demonstration near a plant of the heavy off-road vehicles manufacturer MZT in Minsk, Belarus, Aug. 17, 2020. (CNS photo/Vasily Fedosenko, Reuters)

“I have not heard from him in many months and I would not expect to,” Bishop Mark Brennan of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston. “Whatever he is doing, he is doing and is in a dark hole.”