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A man is silhouetted in front of St. Ignatius of Loyola Church in Santiago, Chile June 13, 2018. Pope Francis praised the opening of the Center for Investigation of Abuse and Early Prevention at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in an Aug. 15, 2019, video for the occasion. (CNS photo/Rodrigo Garrido, Reuters)

Pope applauds launch of abuse investigation center in Chile

Junno Arocho Esteves
August 20, 2019
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A specialized center at Chile’s premier Catholic university can help the Catholic Church protect minors and vulnerable persons from the scourge of clerical sexual abuse, which has plagued the Catholic Church in the country and around the world, Pope Francis said.

Planned Parenthood employees stand outside the facility during protests in St. Louis May 31, 2019. (CNS photo/Lawrence Bryant, Reuters)

Planned Parenthood decides to withdraw from Title X program

Catholic News Service
August 20, 2019
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The Planned Parenthood Federation of America announced Aug. 19 it is withdrawing from the federal Title X program over the Trump administration’s “Protect Life Rule” barring these funds from being used for promoting or providing abortion as family planning.

A goat consume buckthorn shrubs and other unwanted vegetation at St. Mary Catholic Cemetery in Appleton, Wis., July 13, 2019. Twelve goats help rid the cemetery of the invasive species of shrub, thanks to a grant from the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region. (CNS photo/Brad Birkholz, for The Compass)

Voracious goats keep Wisconsin cemetery looking beautiful the natural way

Catholic News Service
August 19, 2019
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In early July, five goats arrived in the cemetery from a farm in nearby Black Creek. They’re helping tackle the cemetery’s problem with buckthorn, an aggressive, invasive species of shrub that had overtaken the cemetery’s riverbank.

Father Fabian Marquez encourages a woman during a vigil service for Andre Pablo Anchondo at Perches Funeral Home in El Paso, Texas, Aug. 15, 2019. Anchondo died along with his wife Aug. 3 as they protected their 2-month-old baby from the mass gunman at Walmart. Achondo was buried the next day following his funeral Mass celebrated by Father Marquez. (CNS photo/Ivan Pierre Aguirre)

‘So many funerals,’ says El Paso priest who comforted grieving kin

Mark Pattison
August 19, 2019
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Father Fabian Marquez was the right priest at a very wrong time. He was among several priests in El Paso, Texas, summoned to help out where they could in the hours following the brazen Aug. 3 assault at a Walmart store in the Texas border town that left 22 dead and dozens of others wounded.

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