August 17, 2009

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.