Catholic News Service

The nation has experienced "yet another night filled with unspeakable terror," said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington.

 Saying he was speaking "on behalf of our country and the children whose lives are at stake," Cardinal Timothy Dolan urged members of the U.S. House to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

The U.S. Catholic bishops and other faith groups are objecting to reports that the Trump administration will limit the number of refugees the United States accepts to 45,000 for the upcoming fiscal year.

An arrest warrant has been issued in Canada for Msgr. Carlo Capella, the Vatican diplomat who already was the subject of a Vatican criminal investigation involving child pornography.

Catholic families in a cross-community housing project in Belfast, Northern Ireland, have been forced to leave their homes after a sectarian threat, thought to be from Protestant paramilitaries.

A Georgia death-row inmate's scheduled execution late Sept. 26 was stayed by the Supreme Court just hours before he was to have been put to death.

The Canadian bishops will not publish their new policy for the protection of minors before 2018, said Bishop Anthony Mancini of Halifax-Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

Catholic Charities USA has sent $1 million in emergency aid and the Knights of Columbus is including Puerto Rico in its expanded emergency relief outreach.

St. Vincent de Paul's zeal for helping the poor was the instrument God used to bring about a "burst of generosity in the church," Pope Francis said. 

Nearly a week after the hurricane with 155 mile-an-hour winds hit the Caribbean island, much of Puerto Rico remains without power with its road and landscape devastated.

 Vatican official called on the world's governments to strive more actively to prevent wars, protect human dignity and the environment and work toward a nuclear-free world.

The president of the German bishops' conference urged "verbal disarmament" after Sept. 24 elections brought a far-right party into the parliament.

Supporting refugees and migrants can take many forms, and Pope Francis is hoping Catholics around the world will act over the next two years to encounter people on the move.

The U.S. Supreme Court Sept. 25 canceled a hearing on the constitutionality of Trump's travel ban after government officials unveiled a new version of the prohibitions.

The first person to serve as the Vatican's independent auditor said he was forced to resign after opponents of Pope Francis' financial reforms mounted a campaign against him.

Donations from Caritas chapters across Mexico started streaming into affected areas after an earthquake rocked central Mexico Sept. 19, claiming more than 300 lives and leaving thousands homeless. 

The worst sin of all is not trusting in God's infinite love and not believing that God is always waiting for his sinning children to return to him, Pope Francis said.

Every person "must do something," whether big or small, to address racism in the United States, Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, Illinois, told an audience at The Catholic University of America.

Pope Francis said he is worried that even Catholics are arguing against accepting more migrants and refugees into their communities.

 The latest version of a Republican measure in the Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act must be amended to protect poor and vulnerable Americans, said the chairmen of four U.S. bishops' committees.