Bishop Vásquez points out that there are more than 740,000 young people who have received and benefitted from DACA.

Speaking from Baghdad on Dec. 14, Kevin Hartigan, Catholic Relief Services' regional director for the Middle East, Central Asia and Europe told America that his team was bracing for what may be unprecedented numbers of people in flight from the contested city.

The struggle to liberate Mosul from ISIS militants has entered a third month of often savage combat.

New Yorkers can be forgiven if they believed homelessness were a problem consigned to the past.

“Pope Francis—and myself, we’re sons of a church and a living church.”

The Jesuit presidents wrote they are called "to embrace the entire human family, regardless of their immigration status or religious allegiance.”

Authorities today were still trying to ascertain a motive for the attack.

The campaign is demanding better pay, beginning with a hike of the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. It is currently a paltry $7.25 and has not budged in seven years.

"At the same time, I offer prayers to the Lord for his rest and I entrust the whole Cuban people to the maternal intercession of our Lady of the Charity of El Cobre."

Researchers say deforestation, pollution, overfishing and the illegal wildlife trade, together with climate change, “are pushing species populations to the edge.”