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Pope Francis asked members of the United Nations how they think they can respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and build a more peaceful, more just world when many of their countries spend billions on military weapons and when their treatment of the unborn, of refugees and of women shows so little respect for human life.

Josie Johnson was a young civil rights activist when she boarded a plane in 1963 headed for the March on Washington.

New job in hand, Jim Richter was adjusting well to life in Minneapolis several months after leaving his hometown of Chicago.

Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh told Catholics in the diocese in a preelection message that he cannot tell them whom to vote for on Election Day.

President Donald Trump's Sept. 23 announcement that he will issue a "Born Alive Executive Order" will "provide necessary legal protections for some of the most vulnerable in society," said Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund.

Prison ministry participants — whose faith, hope and mercy are often part of inmates’ successful return to society — may be able to enter prisons again within the next six weeks following the prisons’ COVID-19 shutdown, according to Paul Schnell, Minnesota Department of Corrections commissioner.

The world will not overcome the current crisis if only big businesses, financial institutions and the powerful have a voice, Pope Francis said.