Church and civil organizations are working to bring relief to victims.

The dominant rationale is that immigrant workers are "stealing" South Africans' jobs.

35,000 have arrived by boat in southern Europe. Some 1,600 are dead or missing.

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Robert Finn from his post as pastor of the diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph Missouri The bishop was the first Catholic prelate to be convicted by a civil court in the United States for the criminal lsquo misdemeanor rsquo of not reporting a pr

A divided archdiocese calls for mercy and imagination, not digging in and building bunkers.

The national Catholic community is remembering Cardinal Francis George who passed away Friday as a man of nbsp intelligence scholarship and leadership skills ndash with an often acerbic wit and penchant for controversial comments But for many of Chicago rsquo s 2 3 million Catholics George