North America

Mexican Catholics have expressed alarm at a proposal to oversee the online expressions of religious leaders through a change of the country’s Religious Associations and Public Worship Law.

“Today, it is no longer enough to apprehend the killer: We must resolutely combat the root causes of all these murders,” the bishops said.

In Mexico, Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) dates to pre-Hispanic times, in which people commemorate and commune with their deceased loved ones.

“We are grateful for the protection of God that (Kingston) didn’t get any heavy damage yet,” said a member of the Missionaries of the Poor.

Jamaicans generally “are faith-based people,” so “I think many are relying on their faith to keep them strong in the face of the storm,” the bishop said.

Catholic faithful in Jamaica are responding with “a lot of prayer” as the island nation is battered by what analysts say may be its worst hurricane on record.

The priest was pastor of San Cristóbal Parish in Mezcala, a region rife with drug cartel activity in what was once Mexico’s heroin-producing heartland.

A new documentary on the abuses allegedly committed by Father Marko Rupnik and survivors’ pursuit of justice received high praise at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The NGO for which the missionary works, Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos, reported the news with “deep gratitude and a relief that cannot be described in words.”

(OSV News) –A Canadian court has ruled a Canadian diocesan priest can continue his civil suit against Basilian Father Thomas Rosica and the Basilian Fathers of Toronto, with the plaintiff, …