PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, February 5, 2010--The president of Haiti’s Bishops’ Conference has mournfully recounted the burial of seminarians killed in the country’s massive January quake. Describing the strains and torments in the disaster’s wake, he says the surviving seminarians will help other grieving victims despite their own suffering.

MADRID, Spain, February 4, 2010--The president of Spain’s House of Representatives, Jose Bono, a self-described Catholic socialist, criticized the country’s bishops this week for being “judges” and “professors of dogma,” following their statement that politicians who support abortion cannot receive Communion.

PARIS, February 4, 2010--The archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, is underlining Church's reasons for opposing nuclear war, and stressing the next steps for eliminating these weapons.

Archbishop Edwin O'Brien, a member of the U.S. bishops' conference Committee on International Justice and Peace, stated this Wednesday in Paris at the three-day Global Zero Summit.

MEMPHIS, Tenn., January 31, 2010--A Catholic group is again leading a multi-national prayer effort to organize one million Rosaries for unborn babies. Participants will pray for an end to the “surgical and non-surgical killing of unborn human persons.”

MADRID, Spain, January 30, 2010--The Salesians will celebrate the feast of their founder, St. John Bosco, on January 31 with a series of initiatives to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Several of the congregation's facilities in the country were destroyed or significantly damaged due to the January 12 disaster.

LONDON, England, January 30, 2010--Britain’s national Catholic Youth Ministry Congress will take place in London on Feb. 27. Organizers say they have scheduled some of the best known Catholic speakers for the event, which will also present new research into the life and faith of young Catholics.