The pope also addresses problems in Turkey and Venezuela, and allegations against Cardinal Pell.

To forget the kingdom to come is to make ourselves at home in the world.

The attack killed a French priest and took four people hostage—two nuns and two lay faithful.

The call of Daesh to members of Europe’s Muslim communities to kill as many “unfaithful” Western people as possible creates a new vista of possibilities for violent, frustrated men.

Tighter Western security measures and immigration controls are two likely outcomes of a truck attack in France on July 14, but a closer appraisal of “crisis architecture” may be another response to the unprecedented attack.“I think that, sadly, we’re at a place where—no

“These types of attacks are not going away,” said Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

“The darkness of violence cannot dim the light of humanity’s highest aspirations to live in peace,” Archbishop Joseph Kurtz said, offering prayers for the dead and wounded.

Pain washes out what divides us.

Lebanon—a multi-faith nation of just four million people—continues to shoulder the burden of more than two million refugees within its borders.

Syriac patriarchs, marking the two-year anniversary since Islamic State militants expelled Christians from a large part of Iraq, denounced “the ethno-religious genocide” of their people and called for the liberation of those areas. Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan and P