Crime

Catholic missionaries in Latin America say they have noticed disturbing signs of an increase in child abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow in the U.S. faster than anywhere else in the world, the Catholic bishop of El Paso, Texas, is asking local authorities to release nonviolent migrants at his local U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities.

Commentary: President Trump's "American carnage" remarks at his inauguration referred to the prevalence of U.S. gun violence. The "carnage" continues in Lexington, Kentucky, where Trump will visit today.

There has been a wave of kidnappings in Nigeria over the years, targeting politicians, foreigners and individuals from wealthy homes. More recently, kidnappers have shifted their attention toward priests.

The nation's criminal justice system "is in need of reform" and the First Step Act "is a worthy 'first step' in the right direction," said Bishop Frank Dewane of Venice, Florida.

NCR Today: I wrote last week about prisoners’ three-week strike for just treatment. So did Clare Coffey. The strike officially ended Sept. 9, but punishment of the strikers continues.

Chilean Catholics are training clerics and parishioners in abuse prevention and counseling victims, but not just abuse in church settings.

Gabriel Rentaria was 7 years old when he started using a gun. Never to kill, he said, just to scare people. But he saw people -- enemies and friends -- fall dead "in my face," he recalled.