“We’re trying to do something for our nation,” says Taylor Charging Crow. “We’re risking our lives. We’re risking our families.”

A crucified God is not the status quo, and it is isn’t made into the acceptable, the intellectually palatable, by the proclamation of the resurrection.

All of us have interior afflictions that paralyze us, like the unnamed ailment that ravaged the man in Luke’s Gospel and left him motionless on a stretcher.

The decision is a victory for the several thousand camped near the construction site.

Complacency is an occupational hazard of participating in a two-thousand year old belief system.

First Saturday of Advent

The church is now recognizing what the local church in Central and South America has always known.

"So many families are wondering how changes to immigration policy might impact them," said Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles.

Pax Christi's leadership is concerned that Israel's actions violate international law and must stop.

“Pope Francis—and myself, we’re sons of a church and a living church.”

Father Stanley Rother is the first recognized martyr from the United States.

"The Holy Father makes it clear that caring for our common home is a fundamental dimension of Christian spirituality."

Two saintly Christians separated by only a few decades in time.

Dec. 2, First Friday of Advent.

Jesús y Juan actuaban como verdaderos médicos. Se interesaban sinceramente por la salud espiritual de aquellos que se les acercaban. Por eso a veces sus palabras eran de denuncia, pero siempre cargadas de amor. Porque sólo con amor se puede decir la verdad dolorosa a los demás.

The Jesuit presidents wrote they are called "to embrace the entire human family, regardless of their immigration status or religious allegiance.”

The Jesuits at the magazine saw themselves as ministering in a country hostile to the Catholic faith and so chose Edmund Campion as their patron.

The leaders pledged to continue working "to protect to the fullest extent of the law undocumented students on our campuses" and to promote retention of students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status.

"The Catholic community of east Tennessee continues to pray for those who have been affected by the terrible wildfires in Gatlinburg and other communities across the region," Bishop Richard F. Stika said.