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Earthquake victims rest at a makeshift camp Jan. 7, 2020, outside their apartment building in Yauco, Puerto Rico. Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, offered "my prayerful solidarity" to the people of Puerto Rico in a Jan. 7 statement, after a series of earthquakes killed at least one person and destroyed one Catholic church. (CNS photo/Marco Bello, Reuters)

Puerto Rico reels under successive earthquakes; Catholic church damaged

Dennis Sadowski
January 10, 2020
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At least one person has died and one Catholic church was destroyed by the latest of a series of earthquakes to rock Puerto Rico.

Father Michael G. Schueller's viral photo of a cattle cross set up by the Grotto family is seen Dec. 23, 2019, on their farm in Bankston, Iowa. Father Schueller, pastor of St. Elizabeth Pastorate, which includes St. Clement Parish, pilots drones in his spare time and enjoys taking aerial photographs. (CNS photo/courtesy Father Michael Schueller)

Iowa priest-photographer surprised by appeal of viral cattle cross image

Dan Russo
January 9, 2020
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Thousands have seen the photograph and its impact continues weeks after the priest took the shot.

Kristen Stewart stars in a scene from the movie "Underwater." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 -- parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. (CNS photo/Fox)

Movie Review: ‘Underwater’

John Mulderig
January 9, 2020
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Like the ocean depths in which it’s set, director William Eubank’s monster movie “Underwater” (Fox) is dim and murky.

Pope Francis speaks with Iran's ambassador to the Holy See, Seyed Taha Hashemi, during an audience for the traditional exchange of new year's greetings in the Sala Regia at the Vatican Jan. 9, 2020. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters pool)

Amid threat of war, world must not give up hope, pope tells diplomats

Junno Arocho Esteves
January 9, 2020
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Hope is the virtue needed to approach the coming year, especially when the looming threat of war surrounds a humanity scarred by violence, Pope Francis said.

The White House is seen in Washington at sunrise Jan. 8, 2020. Iran attacked two bases in Iraq that house American troops with a barrage of missiles early Jan. 8 in retaliation for the U.S. killing an Iranian general Jan. 3. (CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)

USCCB president urges world leaders to pursue dialogue, seek peace

Catholic News Service
January 8, 2020
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Hours after Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two Iraqi bases, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued a statement calling for urgent prayers “that our world’s leaders will pursue dialogue and seek peace.”

Charlotte O'Dwyer, daughter of Rural Fire Service volunteer Andrew O'Dwyer, with her mother, Melissa, receives her father's service medal from RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons during his funeral Mass at Our Lady of Victories Catholic Church in Sydney Jan. 7, 2020. Andrew O'Dwyer, a member of the Horsley Park Rural Fire Brigade in Sydney, died Dec. 19 when the truck he was traveling in rolled off the road after a tree fell in the town of Buxton. (CNS photo/Dean Lewins, AAP via Reuters)

‘No end in sight to the horror’: Australian bishops respond to fires

Catholic News Service
January 7, 2020
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Saying that “there is no end in sight to the horror which confronts us,” Archbishop Mark Coleridge, president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, said the bishops have implemented a national response to months of wildfires.

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