Francis wrote, "our human family is beset by grave humanitarian crises demanding farsighted and united political responses."

Efforts to respond to the global crisis of migration are straining budgets not only at humanitarian agencies like Catholic Relief Services but among nations near points of flight.

He prayed for people across the globe, and especially for the people of Aleppo.

The death toll in Haiti had exceeded 370.

Matthew ruins crops, destroys water treatment plants and leaves a climbing death toll in an already-poor nation.

Trump praised the saint’s “amazing life of charity and holiness” and Clinton recalled her work with the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.