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Members of Israeli and Mexican rescue teams carry a body from a collapsed building in Mexico City on Sept. 21, two days after an earthquake. (CNS photo/Carlos Jasso, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
In the aftermath of two earthquakes in the span of two weeks in Mexico church-based relief agencies have been on the ground providing food, shelter and repairs.
Soldiers hold up closed fists motioning for silence during rescue efforts at the Enrique Rebsamen school in Mexico City, Mexico, on Sept. 21. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jan-Albert Hootsen
Reports of a girl trapped in the rubble of a collapsed school in Mexico City captured the world's attention, but the story was created by bad journalistic and government practices.
Sister Marita Rother, a member of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, holds a picture of her brother, Father Stanley Rother, a priest of the Oklahoma City Archdiocese, who will be beatified on Sept. 23 in Oklahoma City. (CNS photo/Christopher Riggs, Catholic Advance)
FaithNews
Christopher M. Riggs - Catholic News Service
Sister Marita Rother really didn't get to know her brother, Father Stanley Rother, as a priest until she visited him in Guatemala in the 1970s.
Rescue workers help people on Sept. 20 in Guayama, Puerto Rico, after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria. After battering the Virgin Islands, the hurricane made landfall in Puerto Rico, bringing "catastrophic" 155 mph winds and dangerous storm surges. (CNS photo/Carlos Garcia Rawlins, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyNews
Rhina Guidos - Catholic News Service Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Thousands sought shelter in Puerto Rico, as Hurricane Maria, called a "monster storm" by many, hit the Caribbean island just short of a Category 5 storm Sept. 20, with winds of 155 miles per hour.

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello said the hurricane had the potential of being the "most catastrophic hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in a century."

An injured woman is assisted in Mexico City on Sept. 19 after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit to the southeast of the city, killing hundreds. (CNS photo/Carlos Jasso, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyNews
David Agren - Catholic News Service
Mexican church leaders react to a devastating earthquake as improvised efforts bring ordinary Mexicans together to lend a helping hand.
A girl cries as Pope Francis meets a group from Mexico during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sept. 20. Mexico was hit by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake on September 19th. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
"May our mother, the Virgin of Guadalupe, with great tenderness be near the beloved Mexican nation," the pope said in Spanish Sept. 20 during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square.