The Latest: Pope speaks of unity to Congress in turmoil

The threat of a partial government shutdown looms next week unless lawmakers can resolve a dispute over funding for women’s health services at Planned Parenthood, which also performs abortions and provides fetal tissue for researchers. Francis didn’t join that controversy, alluding only in passing to the Catholic Church’s opposition to abortion when he noted, to applause, “our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development.”