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Central American migrants who were returned to Mexico from the U.S. under the Migrant Protection Protocols eat breakfast at a Catholic-run shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Sept. 12, 2019. A Mexican priest and migrant shelter operator suffered an extortion attempt and later a violent robbery at his parish residence on the same day. (CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

Mexican priest who runs shelter extorted, later attacked in rectory

Catholic News Service
October 29, 2019
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A Mexican priest and migrant shelter operator suffered an extortion attempt and, later the same day, a violent robbery at his parish residence.

In his weekly column of Oct. 25, 2019, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput calls the city's plans to create a safe "illicit" drug injection site "simply the latest dose of despair offered by a confused and suffering culture." Archbishop Chaput is pictured in a June 13, 2018, photo. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Plan for drug injection site latest in ‘dose of despair,’ says archbishop

Catholic News Service
October 29, 2019
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Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia said the city’s plan to create a safe drug injection site now that it has the legal go-ahead to do so “is simply the latest dose of despair offered by a confused and suffering culture.”

Pope Francis accepts a plant during the offertory as he celebrates the concluding Mass of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican Oct. 27, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Christians must shun self-worship, pope says at synod’s final Mass

Barbara J. Fraser
October 28, 2019
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Poor people from the Amazon have shown that God’s creation must be treated “not as a resource to be exploited but as a home to be preserved, with trust in God,” Pope Francis said.

Books are pictured in a cabinet in the Vatican Apostolic Archives. Pope Leo XIII founded the Vatican School of Paleography, Diplomatics and Archive Administration in 1884, just a few years after he opened the archives to the world's scholars
Books are pictured in a cabinet in the Vatican Apostolic Archives. Pope Leo XIII founded the Vatican School of Paleography, Diplomatics and Archive Administration in 1884, just a few years after he opened the archives to the world's scholars. (CNS photo/Vatican Secret Archives)

With new decree, pope makes Vatican Secret Archives no longer ‘secret’

Junno Arocho Esteves
October 28, 2019
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Citing the negative misinterpretations that the word “secret” implies, Pope Francis has changed the name of the Vatican Secret Archives to the Vatican Apostolic Archives.

Heidi Campbell, a communications professor at Texas A&M University in College Station, speaks Oct. 18, 2019, during a conference titled "Religion Beyond Memes" at the University of Notre Dame's Ansari Institute for Global Engagement in Washington.
Heidi Campbell, a communications professor at Texas A&M University in College Station, speaks Oct. 18, 2019, during a conference titled "Religion Beyond Memes" at the University of Notre Dame's Ansari Institute for Global Engagement in Washington. (CNS Photo/Greg Gibson, University of Notre Dame Keough School of Global Affairs)

The dark side of memes: spreading untruths about religion

Rhina Guidos
October 28, 2019
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The image seems inoffensive on the surface: a figure of a gray-haired man, presumably God, with text that says: “I gave you free will so use it exactly as I command you to.” It was one example of an image known as a meme offered by Heidi Campbell, a communications professor at Texas A&M University, […]

Pope Francis attends the final session of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican Oct. 26, 2019. Also pictured are Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops, and Cardinal Claudio Hummes, relator general of the synod. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Synod document: New ministries can serve evangelization in Amazon

Junno Arocho Esteves
October 26, 2019
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To proclaim the Gospel message of hope, the Catholic Church in the Amazon must open new paths of evangelization in the region, including by instituting new ministries for lay men and women, the Synod of Bishops said.

Washington Nationals celebrate their Oct. 15, 2019, win over the St. Louis Cardinals during the ninth inning in game four of the 2019 NL Championship Series playoffs at Nationals Park in Washington. (CNS photo/ Geoff Burke, USA TODAY Sports via Reuters)

Nats fans on World Series: Baltimore in our title, but D.C. in our hearts 

Cassidy Jensen
October 26, 2019
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D.C. team loyalty can be hard to shake, according to Washington Nationals fans in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre – Middle Atlantic Lieutenancy; Ceremony of Investiture and Solemn Eucharistic Liturgy

Archbishop William E. Lori
October 26, 2019
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Just as Mary had conceived the her divine Son in the power of the Spirit and walked with him, even if from afar, as his first and best disciple, so now Mary accompanies the Apostles to the Upper Room where the mission of the Church to spread the Gospel will be quickened by the Spirit through whom the Christ had entered human history.

A wooden statue of a pregnant woman is pictured in the Church of St. Mary in Traspontina.
A wooden statue of a pregnant woman is pictured in the Church of St. Mary in Traspontina as part of exhibits on the Amazon region during the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon in Rome Oct. 18, 2019. Several copies of the statue were stolen from the church and thrown into the Tiber River Oct. 21. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope apologizes that statues were vandalized, says they were recovered

Cindy Wooden
October 25, 2019
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Pope Francis apologized that two men entered a church near the Vatican, took controversial statues and tossed them into the Tiber River. “As bishop of the diocese, I apologize,” he said Oct. 25, the first time the full membership of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon was gathered since the statues were taken from […]

Pope Francis celebrates Mass Oct. 25, 2019, in the chapel of his residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae.
Pope Francis celebrates Mass Oct. 25, 2019, in the chapel of his residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Mind your own business each day to grow in holiness, pope says

Cindy Wooden
October 25, 2019
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Too often Catholics know what is going on in their neighbor’s house but pay little or no attention to the normal spiritual struggles going on in their own hearts and souls, Pope Francis said. Life involves a continuing battle “between grace and sin, between the Lord who wants to save us and pull us out […]

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