In the run-up to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, Pope Francis decried on April 9 humanity’s ability to systematically exterminate its own brothers and sisters. He asked that God’s mercy “help all of us, in the love for the truth and justice, to heal every wound and

Their shadows flickered and stretched to the west.The future fixed its lidless eyeOn concrete switchgrass, furrows of asphalt.Telescopes, searchlights aimed on highShot the flare of the mind at darkness.We stood on the moon but failed to scryThe star called wormwood. The signal changed, but the

It was no surprise that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all 30 counts in the Boston Marathon bomber trial on April 8; in an opening statement, his attorneys had conceded his guilt in the April 2013 horror at the finish line. The State of Massachusetts bars the use of capital punishment, but Tsarn

High school seniors are tired of being asked: Where are you going to school? What are you going to study?

From the wreckage of Britain’s broken dreams, the U.S. plucked the mantle of global leadership

What is the appropriate age for Catholic children baptized in infancy to celebrate confirmation? It might seem a relatively minor issue. Yet I believe the great efforts the U.S. Catholic Church has put into the new evangelization, its mission to “invite each Catholic to renew their relationshi

It is 5:30 a.m., June 1995, as the rising sun breaks into my little backstreet hotel room in Hanoi, and the light trampling of hundreds of feet padding past my window shakes me out of bed and into my shorts and sneakers to join the multitude of morning runners. The mass is heading toward West Lake,

A Royal PriesthoodThe editors suggest all good things in “A Space for Women” (3/30), and I especially concur with Gudrun Sailer that the solution is not merely replicating secular structures. The problem of women’s roles in the church is a problem of an inadequate theology of

Women at Texas migrant detention center staged hunger strike to improve conditions

Aims to 'elevate the debate on the moral dimensions of protecting the environment'

Cardinal Sean O rsquo Malley put the question of the accountability on the table of this week rsquo s meeting of the pope with his ldquo Council of Nine rdquo cardinal advisors His intent is to find a juridical and competent way to deal effectively with bishops and religious superiors who abuse t

Taxpayers should shift anger from person using food stamps at Walmart to Walmart itself

Serving refugees, immigrants and the poor in Houston for 35 years

For the elders of Iqrit, their biggest regret in life is not having been able to raise their children together.On April 13, they congregated with the younger generations in the old Church of St. Mary for Easter Monday Mass in this destroyed Melkite village perched on a sloping hill in Western Galile

With the coming of April 2015 the sesquicentennial of the Civil War draws to a close giving ample cause to look back on one of the most cataclysmic months in the nation rsquo s history It is now hard to imagine the surge of contrasting emotions that Americans felt first on April 9 1865 when Ge

Lauren Hill, a Mount St. Joseph University freshman who gained international attention when she pursued her dream of playing college basketball even as her inoperable brain cancer advanced, died overnight April 10. She was 19.She suffered from a fatal brain cancer called diffuse intrinsic pontine gl

'Belief means transcending ourselves, leaving behind our comfort'

To kill always degrades the killer; we become what we say we despise.

Support for the canonization of the Catholic thinker from an unlikely place

The U.S. government April 8 deported retired Salvadoran Gen. Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, a former director of the Salvadoran national guard, to El Salvador.In early 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a deportation order for Casanova and retired Salvadoran Gen. Jose Guillermo Garcia, the