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In El Salvador, North Americans and Salvadorans gathered in the village of San Francisco Hacienda on Dec. 2 at the precise spot where four U.S. churchwomen were killed 35 years ago. “It is important for us to remember that her work for justice and peace lives on,” Terri Keogh told the cr

There are many reasons to support hope that enough time and ingenuity remain to prevent or mitigate the worst effects of climate change.

I.C.B.M. systems are useless against the danger that a group like ISIS represents.

An interview with journalist and author Austen Ivereigh on the radical reforms of the Francis papacy

Few sisters cite their congregation’s “progressive” or “traditional” reputation as a factor in their decision to enter.

A century after Frank Sinatra's birth, his voice still expresses our longings and loneliness, our joys and our sorrows, our fears and our hopes, our pasts and tomorrows.

Daily Advent Reflections, Dec. 9: How can we, who have nothing, bless the God who has everything?

With the government of President Bashar Assad controlling perhaps one-quarter of Syria but two-thirds of the population, and Kurdish separatists controlling two northern slivers of the country, most of Syria's eastern half is controlled by Islamic State, with collections of so-called "moderate" rebels -- i.e., anyone not named Islamic State that wants Assad gone -- hunkered down in the rest. There is little incentive for Syrians to stay in their homeland.

"We want human rights, indigenous rights, food security and gender equality in Article 2" of the accord's text, said Bernd Nilles, head of CIDSE, an alliance of Catholic development agencies present at the conference site in Le Bourget on the outskirts of Paris.

"We need funding, we are small-scale farmers (and) we don't have much resources. How do we adapt," she asked, from inside an antiquated and ornate room belonging to a Paris syndicate. She sat surrounded by other, mostly African women farmers and their advocates who, like Chidararume, had traveled thousands of miles to France in an attempt to sway U.N. negotiators.

"The Argentine Catholic Church will get along much better with Macri than with the Kirchners," said Fernando Farias, a journalist and analyst with Argentine public radio in Buenos Aires. "I think that the Catholic Church, with a friendlier government in office, is going to try to advance conservative policies."

Group believes Middle East Christians should be included in any listing of genocide victims based on their treatment by the Islamic State.

Millions of Mexicans descend annually on the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, especially for the feast day Dec. 12, with many making pilgrimages on bike or arriving on foot from the surrounding states. The devotion shows few signs of fading while growth in the United States, through immigrant communities, is strong.

"A great deal is at stake for every country. Progress has too long been based on fossil energy, to the detriment of the environment. This is the moment to take action," Cardinal Peter Turkson told a high-level segment of the U.N. climate change conference taking place on the outskirts of Paris.

Outrageous statements can become ends in themselves.

"To pass through the Holy Door means to rediscover the infinite mercy of the Father who welcomes everyone and goes out personally to encounter each of them.”

Only a poet can come close to imagining the utter beauty and freedom of God.

Underlying Donald Trump's rant against Muslims seems to be a deep ignorance of Islam, and the loud pretense that such ignorance is not a problem.

The lie of anger is that it liberates us and isolates those who deserve punishment. The truth of anger is that it isolates us and liberates no one.