As long as I have lived here, almost 30 years now, a mockingbird has arrived every spring and stayed until the approach of winter.

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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.

As the head of the Archdiocese of Brisbane on the east coast of Australia, the archbishop was a delegate to the meeting of the Synod of Bishops in Rome in 2015.

Moving quickly to strengthen the Section for Refugees and Migrants in the new Vatican department for the Promotion of Integral Human Development, Pope Francis has appointed as under secretaries a Canadian Jesuit, Michael Czerny, and an Italian member of the Scalabrini Fathers, Fabio Baggio. The Vati

We become aware there is a much bigger story at work.

The inspiration for public theology lies in the Catholic belief that the church has a role in transforming the wider society under the influence of the Gospel.

In our lives, ’tis a gift to be humble, but not a gift that many of us have.

The pope zoned in forcefully on a central aspect of the life of the Roman Curia, the papal civil service.

States are prohibited from placing an “undue burden” on pre-viability abortions, but may prohibit post-viability abortions.