On Jan 12th, America will live stream the John Courtney Murray, SJ, Lecture by Rabbi Daniel Polish

Netflix true crime series exposes systemic questions about our criminal justice system.

Pope Francis: I can read my life in light of chapter 16 of the book of the prophet Ezekiel.

"Thank God that someone finally has the courage to close the loopholes in our pitiful gun control laws to reduce the number of mass shootings, suicides and killings that have become a plague in our country," said Bishop Kevin J. Farrell of Dallas in a Jan. 5 entry titled "The Cowboy Mentality" on his blog.

Investors both in the United States and overseas were still shaking from a week destabilized first by sharp exchanges between Iran and Saudi Arabia over an executed Shiite cleric and then by major plummets on China’s stock markets that led to trading being halted twice.

North Korea’s claimed test of a hydrogen bomb this week had one immediate casualty: the Stalinist outpost’s already strained relationship with its largest and most important neighbor, China.

Pope Francis said on Friday that the embrace of God’s love has the power to silence all our sins, no matter how many.

“I have a room here. You have a room here. We’re staying here. Our next room will be in heaven.”

Perhaps only those who choose baptism as a form of death, death in life, ever really know its power.

“We are especially disturbed by reports of immigration officials forcibly entering residences in Georgia and Texas over the last several days to conduct invasive searches and round ups of Central American asylum seekers, including children as young as four,” the statement said.

"Have these tragic events provoked some genuine awakening, and have we offered perspectives for the society of tomorrow by learning lessons from the past?" asked a Jan. 6 statement from the French bishops' conference.

There are no formal refugee camps in Lebanon. Rather, some Syrians establish informal tent settlements. Others find ways to rent space in apartments or squat in abandoned buildings. As of November, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees calculated there were nearly 1.1 million registered refugees living in Lebanon.

In Guatemala the arrests of 18 former military officials on charges of human rights violations were detailed on Jan. 6.

'The Reproach of Hunger,' by David Rieff

'The Mare,' by Mary Gaitskill

Fernando Cardenal, S.J., whose work for the Sandinista government led to his dismissal from the Society, died on Saturday.

ISIS seeks to control the country’s future by destroying its Christian past.