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The Chinese government imposed its one-child policy in 1979 to curb the growth of the population that, at that time, was reaching 972 million people. The policy most strictly applied to Han Chinese, but not to ethnic minorities around China.

The Wisconsin Republican is faced with keeping his party’s conference unified as he takes a position that places him third in line for the presidency. He has vowed to change business-as-usual in the House by building broad consensus for legislation and pledged to eschew last-minute, closed-door deals.

“Is Christian faith incompatible with vast wealth?”

The U.S. bishops will consider whether to approve a new introductory note and a limited revision of their quadrennial statement on political responsibility during their Nov. 16-19 fall general assembly in Baltimore.The statement, "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship," is reissued

Planned Parenthood in Grand Chute suspended abortions in mid-October, citing a lack of medical staff. The building, and Planned Parenthood’s office in Appleton, remains open. Various news reports and sources say that the suspension is because officials there lack an abortion doctor for the site.

An official with Caritas Mexico, the church’s charitable arm, says the storm left a mess in parts of the dioceses serving the western states of Colima, Jalisco and Nayarit with flooding and property damage, but mostly impacted small settlements and rural areas—which were being provided with assistance from parishes diocesan collections.

The arson, at St. Joseph specifically and at the churches in general, left Father Wunderlich with “question marks. I don’t know what else to say. The first question that comes to my mind is, ‘Why would anybody want to do it.’ I’m sure that’s on the mind of police officers and arson specialists. What would be the motivation for something like this?”

Allegations of abuse were described in a new book, “Mitad Monjes, Mitad Soldados” (“Half Monks, Half Priests”), by Pedro Salinas, a former member of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, who interviewed about 30 other former members.

The appeal, addressed to negotiators preparing for the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris Nov. 30-Dec. 11, was a response to Pope Francis’ letter on the environment and an expression of “the anxiety of all the people, all the churches all over the world” regarding how, “unless we are careful and prudent, we are heading for disaster.”

CRS’ Sean Callahan urged Congress to consider additional funding relief along with the Middle East Refugee Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act that will make $1 billion available to refugee aid and resettlement.