Topics to be addressed inclue governance; vocation promotion, admission and formation policies; and spiritual life and common life.
Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died Aug. 11, was "a woman of ardent faith and generous public service" said the apostolic nuncio to the United States.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer detain families at a much-criticized former medium-security prison in Texas.
Sister Carol Keehan decried reports that Catholic health care leaders are “working at cross-purposes” with the U.S. bishops on the abortion issue.
A Catholic archbishop said only a few people accused in last year's violence against Christians have been arrested.
The Mexican Catholic bishops’ conference has criticized federal police for bursting into a Mass in the state of Michoaca.
Can mass violence in Darfur, Congo and Somalia be stopped? A report from the United Nations General Assembly.