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The Archdiocese of Santa Fe is back in bankruptcy court after an abuse survivor has filed a motion alleging church officials are violating a key non-monetary agreement of their recent $121.5 million settlement with survivors.

After an early morning fire April 4 reportedly set by a resident damaged the sanctuary of Our Lady of the Lake Church in Verona, the church could reopen its doors for Mass the weekend of April 20-21, said Father Peter G. Wehrle, pastor.

Australian police say a knife attack in Sydney that wounded a bishop and a priest during a church service as horrified worshippers watched online and in person, and sparked a riot was an act of terrorism.

Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini's unflinching focus on the poor, the Indigenous and the migrant has garnered him great affection from the marginalized, and many threats of violence amid Guatemala's political turmoil.

Jesuit Father William J. Byron, known for his leadership of Jesuit institutions of higher learning and his many years of lecturing, teaching and writing on the relationship between business practices and Catholic spirituality, died at Manresa Hall, the health center of the Jesuit community at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia April 9. He was 96.

The joy of Eastertide has turned to shock and bewilderment across Sydney's Catholic community in the wake of a deadly knife attack at Bondi Junction Westfield shopping center April 13, in which seven people died and a dozen were injured, including a nine-month-old baby. 

Pope Francis' representative to the United States, Cardinal Christophe Pierre, warned against "a polarized mentality" at the upcoming eucharistic revival, during a speech at Loyola University April 11.