The Bishop of Fall River announced Friday that Msgr. Roger J. Landry had been restricted from the public exercise of priestly ministry after allegations of misconduct were made against him by multiple individuals.
The Bishop of Palm Beach formally removed Rev. Alex J. Vargas from ministry at St. Thomas More Catholic Church after an investigation found sufficient evidence of sexual misconduct, abuse of authority, and financial wrongdoing. Bishop Manuel Rodríguez made the announcement in early September.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops weighed in on a pair of high-profile Second Amendment cases at the Supreme Court last week, urging the justices to leave room for counties and states to restrict certain firearms within their own jurisdictions.
The House of Commons voted on Friday, September 11th, 2026, to reject a bill that would have legalized assisted dying for terminally ill adults in England and Wales, ending the latest parliamentary effort to change the law.
Alternative for Germany (AfD) party leader Ulrich Siegmund moved quickly to advance a platform that targeted more than $50 million in annual public payments to the Catholic and Protestant churches after the right-wing party scored a decisive first-place finish in Saxony Anhalt’s state election on September 6th, 2026.
A cache of fireworks stored beside a parish church exploded on the night of Sept. 5, 2026, collapsing a wall and a concrete slab during a patron saint celebration in Santa María Canchesdá. The blast killed at least 10 people and sent dozens more to hospitals, including two priests.
A 35-year-old man was arrested inside Saint-Rémi Church in the eastern French town of Forbach on Tuesday after he entered the building while shouting “Allah Akbar” and appearing to search for the parish priest.
Europe’s highest court heard arguments last summer over whether the Catholic Church must erase baptismal entries when people demand to be “debaptized,” a dispute that pitted the European Union’s data-protection rules against the Church’s claim of religious autonomy.
Loyola High School, a 130-year-old Jesuit Catholic institution in Montreal, announced on September 4th, 2026, that it would reject provincial subsidies rather than alter core elements of its religious mission under Quebec’s expanded secularism law.
Liechtenstein’s parliament narrowly approved a citizens’ initiative to legalize abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy this week, despite a clear warning from Hereditary Prince Alois that he would block the change.
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