Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, has said that the "reasoned support of celibacy" can help to counter secularisation.
The Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, has relaunched the Cause of Archbishop Fulton Sheen despite an ongoing dispute with New York archdiocese over his final resting place.
A Japanese Anglican cleric has entered into full communion with the Catholic Church and will be ordained a Catholic priest, Ucanews.com reports.
Catholic News Service reviewer John Mulderig says that The Rite is a honourable drama disguised as a conventional horror film.
