'The 51 Day War,' by Max Blumenthal

'Flannery O'Connor,' by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell; 'Oscar Romero,' by Kevin Clarke

After hovering for years in political limbo, the long-proposed Keystone XL pipeline, intended to move heavy Canadian crude oil through America’s heartland to the Gulf of Mexico and ultimately out into the world market, was brought to ground on Nov. 6 by President Obama. After noting that Secre

Pope Francis on Nov. 8 denounced the stealing and leaking of confidential documents from the Vatican as “a crime.” At the same time, he confirmed his determination to press ahead with the financial reforms that he started in July 2013 and that are now underway in the Vatican.It was the p

Having children and participating in the workforce should not have to be be traded off.

Republicans offered passion while Democrats showed skittishness in the 90s.

The state's choice of language casts executions in a similarly reassuring,“it’s better this way” kind of light as assisted suicide.

"When children at the dinner table are glued to the computer, or the telephone and do not listen to one another, they are not a family, they are retired," the pope said Nov. 11 during his weekly general audience. The pope said that "to share a meal—and not just food, but also affection, stories, events—is a fundamental experience."

It would be wrong to say Tyshawn, an active child who loved school, video games and basketball, was in the wrong place at the wrong time, Father Pfleger said. "Tyshawn was on his way to play basketball in the park near his grandmother's house," the priest said. "Our children have the right to walk down our streets. Our children have the right to play in the park. Our children have the right to sit on their porches. Our children have the right to be safe wherever they are in the city of Chicago."

"No institution in the United States has done more in recent years than the Catholic Church to take proactive steps to protect children from the evil of sexual abuse," wrote Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington in a Nov. 2 letter emailed to Catholics in his archdiocese.

"The probability is very high that he comes to Juarez," said Father Hesiquio Trevizo, spokesman for the Diocese of Ciudad Juarez.

“If we look at press, we see unreasonable attacks with little meaning, that are ill-conceived and very emotional, if not hysterical.”

In early November, the U.N. Security Council discussed Burundi's worsening violence, sparked by President Pierre Nkurunziza's acceptance of a third term in apparent violation of the constitution.

Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi could be charged for “conspiring in the crime of divulgation of confidential news and documents.”

President Kennedy knew personally what war was and what it meant, for he had seen many of his comrades die in World War II.

Rubio looked ahead to the general election, but Fiorina was the most consistently grim.

'I think it best to share the story of how a relationship with God has positively affected our lives.'

IHow to feel his death? On the street.The shots. My friend’s scream. One cracked the air, the other pierced the thin veil, a usual evening returning from somewhere,returned from many times before. When I look for where to fix the broken city that I love, the whole towe