Recently, some Catholic leaders seem jittery about protests, exercising free speech and community organizing.

The newspaper carries both local and international church news and has been published in English since 1920.

Competing statements this week affirm and critique the church's position on contraception.

By the close of Obama-convened summit, a number of countries committed to admit significant numbers of refugees into their countries.

The refugees came from countries including Syria, Eritrea, Mali and Nigeria. Many escaped war and conflict to seek a new life in Italy.

Ties between the two leaders never fully recovered after Netanyahu showed up on Capitol Hill to lobby Congress against Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.

"Try it. Don’t be upset if it doesn’t seem to 'work' right away. Give it some time. Then try it again."

“Many people in South Florida have bought this black propaganda that I am giving the country away to the Communists,” President Juan Manuel Santos said. “This is nonsense.”

“If we want to stop the war in Syria, then we have to stop the flow of arms to the different groups in conflict," Father Prakash said.

Was that 1856 or last week? It appears it has been both.