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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.

Media reported the men were found one day after their abduction along the side of a highway with their hands and feet bound.

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.

If the Christian intellectual is dead, has a Catholic cousin survived?

“I can assure you that the gravely serious allegations against Archbishop Apuron will continue to be dealt with by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, which will hold a canonical trial."

Violence and division are the work of the devil, Pope Francis said.

Local Catholics can help by also turning to prayer "for the wisdom to know what best to say and do and how to offer support."

Father Amorth is credited with dispelling some 70,000 demons.

One of the most troubling that you probably haven’t heard about is the current boom in video-only visitation.

Human beings cannot be fully characterized by numbers, ratios or risk assessments.

The potential reduction in human suffering from eliminating disease-bearing mosquitoes would be vast.

“Islam is peace,” said George W. Bush just days after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Some worry that people will skip voting if the presidential election seems over by noon.