In the aftermath of the attacks in Paris, which at press time had claimed 132 lives and left hundreds more wounded, President François Hollande vowed to “be unforgiving with the barbarians from Daesh.” By Nov. 15 France had begun bombing raids on the ersatz capital of ISIS, Raqqa in Syr

“I am close to the people of France, to the families of the victims, and I am praying for all of them,” Pope Francis said.

Scores have been killed in numerous attacks across the city of Paris tonight. Reacting to the carnage in Paris, the Holy See called for a united and decisive response.

In a keynote address on Nov. 11, Archbishop Cupich urged that the United States finally fix its broken immigration system, begin treating migrants to its borders as people in need of protection, not detention and begin responding more generously to the Middle East crisis by accepting more people for refugee resettlement.

"The world has changed, it's now more complex and its violence is more concrete. What will be Canada's involvement in that new reality?"

“This will be the most important abortion rights case before the Supreme Court in almost 25 years,” says Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights.