Dispatches

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

Supporting the president’s “modest” proposals, Dallas Bishop Kevin Farrell wrote, they represent “first steps in correcting gun laws so weak that they are ludicrous.”

When it comes to precipitation, Angelenos are easily excited.

The president was most clearly moved when remembering the particularly horrific attack on the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Ct., in December 2012.

It’s really the story of Jesus, if you think about it.

Rather than focus on any one topic, here are ten things I enjoyed this year that you might like for the year to come 2016 (in no particular order).

Maybe the sadness that some of us feel at the holidays is not self-pity but invitation.

In his Christmas Message to the world Pope Francis issued a heartfelt appeal for peace in many of the world rsquo s conflict areas He called in particular for an end to the violence and hatred that is spreading in the Holy Land and elsewhere in the Middle East as well as in several African countr

Bishop Shomali: ‘We hope that this wave of violence stops and more serious negotiations take place in view of a final settlement.’

Greg Burke, an American, and Stefano D’Agostini, an Italian, are early personnel changes in Vatican’s reform project.