On Thursday a federal judge struck down Texas rsquo s voter ID law which requires citizens to produce photo identification in order to cast ballots in federal and state elections The law does not make the same demands of those mailing in absentee ballots U S District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos

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Many iPhones lit up the night Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane was announced as the replacement for my former boss Cardinal Francis George O M I The appointment of Bishop Cupich as the new ordinary for the Archdiocese of Chicago has been presented by many in the media as a discontinuance of ldquo

The synod has just begun but there are already early signs that many aspects of church teaching and praxis are coming under scrutiny with demands for change including a change in the language it uses Seventy synod fathers spoke in the first 24 hours raising many issues including the need for the

Faith community looks at money, power and public policy

On Sept. 18, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria began a military offensive outside of the Kobane area in northern Syria, and in no time they had terrorized and seized 60 of the surrounding villages. Over the next three days an unprecedented flight of 160,000 refugees escaped across Turkey’s s

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An unprecedented 160,000 refugees fled from Islamic State offensive.

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Describing himself as “beyond surprised” by his appointment to the Archdiocese of Chicago, Spokane Bishop Blase Cupich pledged to work with people of faith to “serve the common good” and continue efforts to promote healing in a church community wounded by the sex abuse crisis