Richard E. Pates

Pope Francis and our faith-driven responsibility for the common good

In March 2013, I visited Iraq to attend the installation of Monsignor Louis Sako as the new Chaldean Catholic Patriarch. During that visit, I had a brief, yet startling, introduction to the country in the aftermath of dictatorship, invasion, occupation and civil war. The comments of my Ira

How Catholics can overcome partisan divisions