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The primary objective of the settlement is to transform the culture of the archdiocese into one that is vigilant about preventing child abuse.

It wasn’t the Irish alone who bore the stigma of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States. Name the ethnic group, and suspicions, fears and slanders have been posed against them when Americans who were more settled in this country thought these immigrant groups posed a threat to the American way of life—or, more likely, the status quo that benefited the earlier arrivals.

“Never has there been a greater need for tolerance, compassion and solidarity with people who have lost everything,” UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres saidof the agency’s new report, based on projections from the first half of 2015.

With "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" (Disney), the most popular series in film history resurfaces after a 10-year hiatus. This is the seventh installment in the franchise as well as the first feature in a planned third trilogy. Like its predecessors, it's essentially a family-friendly p

Vice President Joe Biden stole the show at a Georgetown University program promoting peace in wake of terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California.

European finance experts said the Vatican has addressed “most of the technical deficiencies in its legislation and regulations… However, there is a need now for the anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing system to deliver effective results in terms of prosecutions, convictions and confiscation” of criminal assets.

“In my parish, people are not happy. They worry about employment and housing and pensions for the retired, and they fear these things aren’t going to get the same attention in the new government as they did in the old government [of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner],” said Jesuit Father Rafael Velasco.

Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal urged moderate celebrations of Christmas this year because of the current political situation, but he also called for an end to the arms trade.In his Dec. 16 Christmas message, he urged a more spiritual holiday celebration and also encouraged all parishes to turn off the C

Building peace, he said, is not accomplished by words alone, but through the grace of God.

Catholic activists had lobbied for the inclusion of human rights protections and lowering the threshold for the earth’s temperatures to be more in line with scientific research. They also advocated for adequate financing for poor countries to adapt to cleaner energy, and the phasing out of fossil fuels.