The French bishops issued a Jan. 15 statement following numerous statements they have issued since the bill was initially ...

"To love one's neighbor -- whom Jesus identifies as anyone who has need of us -- is within everyone's reach," he wrote in his message for the 34th World Day of the Sick, observed by the church Feb. 11 ...

They pointed to "events in Venezuela, Ukraine and Greenland" that "have raised basic questions about the use of military force and the meaning of peace." ...