The Vatican bank and other Vatican offices with financial dealings are getting more adept at identifying and stopping suspicious financial activity, according to the Vatican’s Supervisory and Financial Information Authority.

Brian Burch, President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, defended the Trump administration’s cuts to foreign aid at a Senate hearing April 8 on his nomination.

As the Trump administration moved to formally dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development, Catholic Relief Services, the overseas charitable arm of the Catholic Church in the U.S., has advocated for U.S. foreign aid to continue on a new path shaped by Catholic principles.

A Chaldean Catholic archbishop denies claims by an Iraqi-American businesswoman that he “aided and abetted” acts of “international terrorism,” including her alleged kidnapping and torture, amid political infighting and turmoil in Iraq in 2014.

Jesus loves people as they are, not based on their merit or righteousness, said the text for Pope Francis’ weekly general audience.

As Ukraine experienced a deadly weekend with a barrage of attacks from Russia on Kryvyi Rih and Kyiv, the capital, the papal almoner handed a gift from Pope Francis — four ambulances — to local authorities in Zaporizhzhia.

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.

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.

As Pope Francis continues his recovery at the Vatican, he is very slowly beginning to get back to his old routine of meeting with top Vatican officials, the Vatican press office said.

Russell Brand is facing two counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault, the Metropolitan Police Service of the United Kingdom announced April 4.