Ask women religious leaders on the front lines of the fight against human trafficking and the exploitation of cheap migrant labor, and you hear less about government programs and more about educating the migrants.

Spending most of her life in Armentières, a northern small French town bordering Belgium, Roseline Hamel, 84, would never have expected it to take such a dramatic turn when her brother, Jacques, 86, was murdered while celebrating Mass at his little church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in France’s Normandy region on July 26, 2016.

Catholics should not be afraid to bear their sins before God whose mercy is a model for the church’s ministers, Pope Francis said.

About 300 students from all over Maryland rallied in cold, rainy weather March 5 outside the Statehouse to help lawmakers understand the importance of continued support for students in nonpublic schools.

Cuatro importantes organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro han lanzado un esfuerzo conjunto para contrarrestar el aumento de la polarización y el aislamiento en EE.UU., incluyendo Caridades Católicas USA, la organización dedicada a llevar a cabo la labor humanitaria doméstica de la Iglesia Católica en Estados Unidos.