The executive order, issued in September, requires for the first time that resettlement agencies get written consent from state and local officials in any jurisdiction where they hope to place refugees after June 2020.

The disaster killed an estimated 220,000 people, injured more than 300,000 and left 1.5 million homeless.

I know how difficult going to Mass can be. But I also know I feel worse when I stay home.

They call on the church “not to be impressed” by “the bad advocacies, the diabolical lies, the erroneous ways by which they wished to devalue priestly celibacy” in the media reporting of that synod.

The "ever-more-complex situation of families in France" had made compiling Catholic documents "sometimes difficult," especially with baptisms.

The nation’s Catholics have started to reflect on their long-term responsibilities in the face of this unprecedented environmental catastrophe.

Because abortion will likely remain legal in many if not most states regardless of where the court comes down on Roe, building a culture that helps mothers and fathers to welcome children remains imperative.

Ireland will violate the concept of the common good if it meets its energy needs through the contamination of water on the other side of the Atlantic, writes Ciara Murphy of the Jesuit Center for Faith and Justice.

Psalm 137 reflects my longing to return home, even as I am aware that I have idealized it in my earnest efforts to not forget it.