The Field Hospital: A handful of Catholic parishes and institutions across the country are offering sanctuary to immigrants threatened with deportation. There is no legal exemption for churches in immigration law, but federal agents have generally left church property alone.

Pope's quotes: Some of our favorite quotes from Pope Francis.

The Peace Pulpit: It's so important that we as a people, followers of Jesus who teaches us this truth about God, that God is kind and merciful, full of compassion, Jesus who teaches us that truth calls us to be the same.  

Msgr. Rene Laurentin, who spent a lifetime studying Marian apparitions, died Sept. 10 at the age of 99 in Evry, France.

Church officials fear that newly revised religious affairs regulations released by the Chinese government will be used to further suppress religious activities.

Celebrating the feast of St. Matthew, Pope Francis said it was interesting how many Catholics today seem to be scandalized when God shows mercy to someone.

A program that provides low-cost health insurance to nearly 9 million children in the United States is facing a Sept. 30 deadline for renewal of its federal funding, amid Congressional efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Bishop McElroy on the cancer in the church; "the weirdest U.N. speech ever"; look back at Youngstown's tragedy.

Distinctly Catholic: Fr. Julián Carrón has led the Communion and Liberation movement since 2005 when the movement's founder, Msgr. Luigi Giussani, died. Carron's new book, Disarming Beauty: Essays on Faith, Truth and Freedom, is at once splendid and frustrating.

Organized religion reasserts its role to help facilitate healing in the St. Louis metropolitan area, following demonstrations about the acquittal of a white former police officer in the murder of Anthony Lamar Smith.