Large investments have led to questions about how the apps — like most other apps and online services — use the personal data collected from users and whether such information is being monetized.

The entanglement of personal and professional interests lends complexity to the espionage thriller “All the Old Knives” (Amazon).

For Eastern Catholics in Ukraine, Archbishop Shevchuk said, “the texts and gestures of the 13th station of this Way of the Cross are incoherent and even offensive, especially in the context of the expected second, even bloodier attack of Russian troops on our cities and villages.”

El papa Francisco reconoció un milagro atribuido a la intercesión del Beato Artémides Zatti, un hermano salesiano que fue farmacéutico en Argentina y conocido por su atención a los enfermos; el milagro abre el camino para su canonización.

Llamándolo “un día triste para la salud y la seguridad de las mujeres en Maryland”, la Conferencia Católica de Maryland criticó duramente a la Asamblea General del estado por anular el veto del gobernador Larry Hogan a un proyecto de ley que ahora se convertirá en ley y ampliará en gran medida el acceso al aborto en el estado.

El obispo nicaragüense exiliado Silvio José Báez reveló que está seguro de que el papa Francisco está trabajando entre bastidores para ayudar a resolver “la situación cruel e injusta de los presos políticos en Nicaragua”.

Bishop Baez’s comments were published April 10 in a wide-ranging interview that touched on his exile, the pope’s perceived silence on Nicaragua and the church’s role in facing the country’s increasingly despotic president.

The efforts of Georgetown and the Jesuits to atone for what they label as a sin has been widely applauded as an example of how to begin the process of racial healing in a country still struggling to come to grips with racism.