As dioceses and shrines are questioning how best to limit the use of artwork created by Slovenian Father Marko Rupnik, who is accused of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse over three decades, the art center he founded continued to promote his latest mosaics at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Aparecida in Brazil.

Deaf Catholics from across the country stood side by side, hands raised in prayer, signing in unison – worshiping in their own language at the first-ever Deaf Eucharistic Congress.

El papa Francisco ha nombrado al obispo Bruce A. Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., nuevo obispo de la Diócesis de Providence, Rhode Island. El nombramiento fue anunciado en Washington, D.C. el 8 de abril por el cardenal Christophe Pierre, nuncio apostólico en los Estados Unidos.

God is good and full of mercy, with plans for us — plans of fullness, not of harm. Increasingly I feel called to serve that reality, to quiet down and let the frenzied world turn its terrible ways while in the grips of a chaos magic that has been increasing in its scope for many decades.

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., and named Bishop William Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, Mo., as his successor.