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News/International

Federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the 7th Circuit is seen at the White House Sept. 26, 2020. President Donald Trump introduced her as the nominee to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat left vacant by the Sept. 18 death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Barrett's Supreme Court nomination gives spotlight to Notre Dame Law School

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WASHINGTON -- If Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court, she will be the first Notre Dame Law School graduate to sit on the bench of the nation's highest court and the only sitting justice with a law degree not from Harvard or Yale.

Pope Francis delivers a prerecorded address to the 75th session of the U.N. General Assembly; the recording from the Vatican's Apostolic Palace was aired Sept. 25, 2020.

Pope Francis' address to United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 25

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Address by Pope Francis to the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 25:

Pope Francis delivers a prerecorded address to the 75th session of the U.N. General Assembly; the recording from the Vatican's Apostolic Palace was aired Sept. 25, 2020.

Pope Francis to U.N.: Respect for each human life is essential for peace, equality

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VATICAN CITY -- 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.

A Muslim man is pictured in a file photo praying outside a mosque in Khartoum, Sudan. Sudanese bishops are welcoming a new declaration signed in early September that separates religion and state.

New declaration in Sudan eliminating state religion praised by bishops

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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Sudanese people can now "worship and practice their various religious beliefs without fear," said the general secretary of the Sudanese bishops' conference.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, speaks from the Vatican in a video message to the UN General Assembly’s High-Level Summit Sept. 21.

UN must stay true to ideals, cardinal says

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VATICAN CITY -- Cardinal Pietro Parolin, in marking the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, called on the organization to renew its commitment to the ideals upon which it was founded.

People are pictured in mid-June praying at London's Westminster Cathedral. In a private ceremony, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee, Carrie Symonds, had their 4-month-old son baptized Sept. 12 in the cathedral's Lady Chapel.

British PM Boris Johnson's son baptized Catholic

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MANCHESTER, England -- A Catholic priest has baptized the infant son of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to reporters following a meeting with members of the U.N. Security Council at U.N. headquarters in New York Aug. 20, 2020.

Pompeo: Vatican-China agreement endangers Church's moral authority

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VATICAN CITY -- About 10 days before he was expected in Rome, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted that the Vatican "endangers its moral authority" by considering an extension of its 2018 agreement with China on the nomination of bishops.

A woman holding a rosay prays during Mass at a church in Beirut Aug. 9, 2020. The church was damaged five days earlier in explosions in Beirut's port area. Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch, described the shrinking presence of Christians in the Middle East as a sinking ship to leaders of the Middle East Council of Churches Sept. 18.

Cardinal likens fading Christian presence in Middle East to a sinking ship

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BEIRUT -- Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai warned that the Christian presence in the Middle East is shrinking and church leaders "are called to face the winds that blow in our homelands."

Cardinal Rai

‘Existential danger’ threatens Lebanon’s future

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RYE, N.Y. -- Amid the turmoil of a global pandemic coupled with a devastating August explosion that destroyed Beirut’s port while killing 200, injuring 6,000 more, Lebanon is facing “an existential danger” it has never experienced before, said Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai.

Bruce Springsteen is seen Sept. 10, 2020, on a Boston College YouTube video. The singer, songwriter and musician was initially scheduled to speak to first-year students in person, but instead addressed them via a Zoom webinar link from his home studio in Colts Neck, N.J.

Bruce Springsteen gives pep talk of sorts to Boston College freshmen

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WASHINGTON -- As this unusual school year gets underway, Boston College freshmen were reminded that they've already been through a lot and were urged -- as college graduating seniors usually are -- that they have to go out and change the world.

At the Socio-Medical Intercommunity Dispensary in the Naba neighbourhood of Beirut, people receive a hot meal to take back to their homes Sept. 2. The centre experienced considerable damage from the explosion in Beirut’s port area Aug. 4.

Politicians at heart of Lebanon’s problems

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Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Rai wants a revolution in Lebanon, but not too much revolution.

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