Violence, poverty, unemployment, hunger and precarious living conditions continue to make life difficult for Salvadorans nearly 20 years after the 1992 end of the 12-year civil war.

“As it stands, the language is not broad enough to protect our Catholic health providers,” the Catholic Health Association complained in a statement.

A car bomb exploded on Aug. 2 outside the Holy Family Syrian Catholic church in the city of Kirkuk, leaving at least 20 people injured.

Catholic sisters who live near London neighborhoods hit by riots are working with local authorities to help homeless victims. 

it was probably thanks to Jesuit Father Roberto Busa that today’s computers don’t just crunch numbers, but amass, sort and link words, allowing written works online to be easily searched and analyzed. Father Busa died late Aug. 9 at the age of 97

The move followed the publication of the Cloyne Report on clerical sexual abuse and "denotes the seriousness of the situation," the Vatican said.