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Memorial grows for Arizona boy whose parents jailed in death
- Mar 5, 2020
A shrine filled with Catholic imagery has arisen at the apartment complex in Flagstaff, Arizona, where a 6-year-old child was murdered. His parents have been arrested in the crime.

By Felicia Fonseca
Former priest convicted in 1960 Texas slaying dies at 87
- Feb 14, 2020
A former Texas priest who was sentenced to life in prison for the 1960 killing of a schoolteacher who’d come to him for confession has died, prison officials said.

By Associated Press
Suspect in ex-priest’s slaying sent to Vegas to face charges
- Jan 28, 2020
A suspect in the killing of a former priest has been returned to Las Vegas from Michigan to face robbery and murder charges.

By Associated Press

Judge won’t compel Catholic health system to fund doctor’s defense
- Jan 10, 2020
A federal judge declined for now to compel a Michigan-based Catholic health system to advance legal costs for a doctor’s defense against murder charges in the deaths of 25 Ohio hospital patients.

By Kantele Franko
Diocese investigates priest’s actions before woman’s killing
- Jan 9, 2020
The Catholic Diocese of Portland is investigating the actions of a priest who got into a fight with a man hours before the man shot a woman 10 times.

By Associated Press
Land activist murdered in Brazil after refusing to testify against Dorothy Stang’s successor
- Dec 31, 2019
Marcio Rodrigues dos Reis’s murder on Dec. 4 in the Amazonian city of Anapu was the 15th case of a peasant being killed in the region due to land conflicts since 2015, according to the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), which is affiliated with Brazil’s National Bishops’ Conference.

By Eduardo Campos Lima

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