Israel's defense minister announced his resignation on May 20, saying the governing party had been taken over by "extremist and dangerous elements" and that he no longer trusted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following reports that he was to be replaced.Moshe Yaalon's departure

In 1838, Georgetown sold 272 slaves from Jesuit plantations in Maryland—men, women and children—to plantations in Louisiana, often breaking up families in the process.

"It's like being in the room with him and listening in to a very special conversation. It's him; it's the real man coming through loud and clear."

The slurs against London’s new Muslim mayor began long before his election.

Catholics and Lutherans are finding common ground in what Cardinal Kasper described as "the original, fundamental" emphasis of Martin Luther, "which is the Gospel of grace and mercy and a call to conversion and renewal."

Standing in line has become a routine as he tries to buy food for his family and to supply a fast-food stand that he runs on a street corner in their neighborhood.

"Since I believe life begins at conception, it should be protected, and I believe it's a core function of state government to defend that life from the beginning of conception."

Bringing scrutiny to bear on the slave labor that sustained it, Georgetown has been claiming its own sinful history.

Referring to businesses that hire employees on part-time contracts so they don't have to provide health and pension benefits, Francis said that was akin to sucking the blood from their workers' veins, leaving them "to eat air."

“Obviously we do want to be a voice for pro-life, family friendly kinds of policies."

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A decade after Stephen Colbert coined the word, “truthiness” has conquered a presidential race.

"Obviously, we do want to be a voice for pro-life, family-friendly kinds of policies."

None of us, he stressed, can say “I am a holy and pure person.”

The world’s biggest mammal had just let me down. And not not for the first time.

“The title character of the book, Blue, is mercy in action.”

People of faith have the responsibility to "advocate for their faith," not only through good works, but on spiritual realms—one being through prayer, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, said on May 17.He made the comments at the 12th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast,

The Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs covers 400 acres in Auriesville on the site of the 17th-century Mohawk village of Ossernenon, where the "Lily of the Mohawks," St. Kateri Tekakwitha, was born.

There are few optimistic conclusions that can be drawn on this 100th anniversary.