The House passed the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act, providing over $500 million to anti-trafficking initiatives in the U.S. and abroad.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced hours before the execution that he would not block the death sentence from being carried out despite appeals from attorneys, mental health advocates and state lawmakers that Morva's mental illness made it impossible for him to distinguish between delusions and reality.

"Joaquin Navarro embodied what Ernest Hemingway defined as courage: grace under pressure."

"This is a plague that has come into the homes and families of every city, town and even the rural areas of our diocese. It has touched the very hearts and souls of our parishioners in the pews and the people living in our communities."

Retired Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco, who led the Northern California archdiocese for 18 years, died on June 22 after a long illness. He was 88.

According to a just-released report from the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, "20 people are newly displaced every minute of the day."

Pope Francis will travel to Colombia in September and he will return to South America in January for a visit to Chile and Peru.

Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory made the comments in the homily at an evening Mass said to commemorate a "Day of Prayer and Penance" for victims of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church.

U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana was listed in stable condition after being shot by a gunman.

Catholic leaders in London offered prayers for victims of a fire in a 24-story apartment building.