TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (CNS) -- On Sept. 24, Providence Sister Barbara Battista stood across the street from where her spiritual directee died just two days before. She had been with him when he was pronounced dead at 9:06 p.m. Sept. 22.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican has proposed to the Chinese government that they extend an agreement signed in 2018 regarding the appointment of bishops, Vatican Media reported. The agreement, the details of which have never been made public, is set to expire Oct. 22.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Justice Antonin Scalia, who died more than four years ago, loomed large in President Donald Trump's Sept. 26 announcement of his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Trump briefly mentioned the former justice, noting that Barrett had once clerked for him, and he pointed out that Scalia's wife, Maureen, and son Eugene, U.S. secretary of labor, were both in attendance for the White House Rose Garden ceremony.