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'We Must Reach Out'

January 5-12, 2015

Vol. 212 / No. 1

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Peshawar, Pakistan
Signs Of the Times

“A barbaric, inhuman and cowardly act” is how Cecil Chaudhry, executive director of the National Commission for Justice and Peace of the Pakistan Catholic Bishops’ Conference, described the attack on an army school in Peshawar on Dec. 16 that left at least 126 children and others d

Signs Of the Times

Ukrainian Catholic leaders have warned that their church is being driven underground again, a quarter-century after it was re-legalized with the end of Communist rule. “In Crimea and eastern Ukraine, we’ve already effectively returned to the catacombs,” said the Rev. Ihor Yatsiv, t

Synod on the Family
Elisabetta PiquéDecember 23, 2014

Editor’s note: The following interview, conducted in Spanish, is Pope Francis’ first lengthy interview with a newspaper in Latin America. The original text was published in three sections in La Nación on Dec. 7, 2014. An English translation, completed by Vivien Pérez Moran, appeared si

The Church Visible
Mary Ann WalshDecember 23, 2014

Preparation for the October 2015 Synod on the Family may help the U.S. church face pressing problems.The church faces a challenge of disunity, some of it from polarization. Threats to unity have crept into the church from adversarial politics that permeate cultural warfare and political skirmishes r

Vatican Dispatch
Gerard O’ConnellDecember 23, 2014

Many in Rome believe that 2015 could prove to be a watershed year in the pontificate of the first Latin American pope.

Washington Front
John CarrDecember 23, 2014

The year 2014 was an awful one for Washington, with too little leadership from the president and too much obstruction from Congress. I find liturgical litanies comforting, but 2014’s litany of Washington woes was demoralizing. The year was a roll call of crises, anger and sadness: Ferguson, &l