In a recent Marist College survey, 61% of respondents who identify as "pro-choice" were not against some restrictions concerning abortion. The poll, taken in January 2019, is an annual event sponsored by the Knights of Columbus detailing Americans' views in the run-up to the yearly March for Life, held in Washington, D.C.

After reports of multiple deaths in violent protests over steep fuel price hikes in Zimbabwe, Archbishop Robert Ndlovu of Harare called for restraint by the security forces and protesters.

Britain is in an "amazing political mess" over Brexit, an English bishop said.

The Venezuelan bishops' conference has labeled the new government of Nicolas Maduro "illegitimate" and called for a "change in government."

"No one ever thought about depriving Caritas of these funds," Raggi told L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, Jan. 14. "The diocesan agency plays an important role for many needy and for the city of Rome, which wants to continue to be the capital of welcome for the weakest."

The latest five-year farm bill continues a pattern of subsidizing corporations while squeezing every last drop of use out of farm families and cropland.