Deep inside Syria, a bishop worked around the blurred edges of international law to save the lives of more than 200 people.

"God asked the church especially to be a sign of his love by continuing to open up a space where our service to one another can be manifested," Bishop Daniel E. Flores said.

Like any technology, it depends on how we use it.

No civilized society can remain indifferent to the clear suffering of so many at this time.

One of the signs of a functioning democracy is confidence in data from the government.

Members of Mr. Turnbull’s government have taken to sounding downright Trumpian in recent days.

If we think the Benedict Option is going to be easier than the messy reality of modern parish life, we have not yet seen it clearly.

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Immigration is an ancient and contemporary reality; human beings have always sought better conditions for their lives.

The continent ends the year much as it began: in disarray, devoid of any vision for the future and united in hardly any sense at all.

The website provides the general public with regular updates on the commission's work.

However it happens, at some point, you will realize that you have no idea where you are, and that there are a lot of unfriendly beasts out there in the world.

The New York archdiocese's program lets people take claims to a noted outside mediator while keeping painful details private.

After two Christmas seasons in which the political reality had overtaken holiday cheer, people seemed primed to finally feel some merriment in Bethlehem.

They "pray, pray" that family members can get out of northern Iraq before a major Islamic State attack.

"Despite all divergences, we believe a political compromise is still possible," the bishops said in a Dec. 2 statement.

After one of my own teenage students was murdered, Emmett Till's grave became a place of occasional pilgrimage for me.

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