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Men carry a replica of Peru's most revered religious icon, the "Lord of Miracles," during an Oct. 18, 2017 procession in Lima. Each year thousands of Catholics gather to commemorate the image's survival in a 17th-century earthquake that destroyed Lima. (CNS photo/Mariana Bazo, Reuters)
Father Ernesto Cavassa was provincial of the Jesuits in Peru from 1998 to 2004, and president of the Conference of Latin American Jesuit Provincials from 2005 to 2012.
In the wake of my reading The Dark Is Rising, one of my New Year’s resolutions is to try to keep pace with time, not lag behind it as I usually do.
Few Catholic women say they look to the church for help in deciding how to vote, even while about half say Catholic teaching on key political issues is important to them.
(Photos: Wikipedia Commons, istock, and Trevor Wilson/Unsplash. Illustration by Angelo Canta)
Antonio De Loera-Brust
As one delves deeper and deeper into the text, one begins to sense that perhaps the two species are not as different as we might think.
Speaking on the 100th anniversary of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's proposed League of Nations, Francis said today's leaders can learn two lessons from the ashes of World War I.
In Europe, Christmas is being stripped of its true nature "in the name of a false respect for those who are not Christian."
Mexican soldiers patrol the city of Ciudad Juárez during a visit by then-President Felipe Calderon on Aug. 9, 2011. (iStock/vichinterlang)
A new law will formalize the military's role in fighting organized crime, but many would prefer strengthening Mexico’s poorly trained and underpaid police forces.
A reflection for the second Thursday of Advent
A photo of Blessed Oscar Romero is displayed as a YSAX radio volunteer works in the studio on Dec. 9 in San Salvador, El Salvador. In San Salvador's traffic jams or at work, people turn on radio YSAX to listen to Blessed Romero's homilies, just as they did over 30 years ago. (CNS photo/Melissa Vida) 
From the 1970s until his assassination in March 1980, Blessed Romero used the radio station YSAX to inform Salvadorans and the international community of the horrors of El Salvador's civil war.
Britain and Ireland both want to prevent the return of a “hard border” around Northern Ireland, but that goal is difficult to square with leaving the European Union.