The prelates hail from 11 different nations and represent multiple religious orders, including the Society of Jesus.

The cross is made from a piece of a wooden boat used by migrants to cross the Mediterranean to land on the island of Lampedusa.

Pompeo: “More than 80 percent of mankind lives in places where religious freedom is threatened or entirely denied and it’s no coincidence that it has happened as unfree societies have proliferated.”

Reform groups are seeking to bring attention to the fact that 185 men but no women are voting members of the Special Synod of Bishops on the Pan-Amazonian Region that begins on Oct. 6.

Melville, who was born 200 years ago this August, was consumed with the issue of humanity’s capacity for good or evil.

Healing teeth can be a first step in restoring hope and giving us a chance to tell a new story with our lives.

Christians and Muslims must, as never before, join hands to bear witness to God’s sovereignty, to God’s love for each and every member of the human family, to God’s desire that we lead upright lives.

In short, Greenhouse argues, “Something is fundamentally broken in the way many American employers treat their workers.”

‘When Life Gives You Pears’ reads as a polished version of a long catch-up conversation with a good friend, writes Renée Darline Roden.