Truth and beauty can be found outside the walls of church, in a space that belongs to those who worship differently.
Interreligious Dialogue
Posted inFaith, Last Take
Muslims and Christians must unite against hate
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.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Anti-Semitic hate crimes must be universally denounced
Every citizen, whether aligned with the political right or the left, must denounce these crimes against our Jewish brothers and sisters.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The prayers of the faithful in the wake of massacres
Upon hearing about some unthinkable violence somewhere in the world, the first thing I do when I get to the church on Sunday morning is pencil another intention into the prayers of the faithful. In some small way, it feels like a solemn duty.
Posted inFaith, News
In South Carolina, a Protestant-only ministry opens its doors to Catholics
For the first time in its 82-year history, Miracle Hill Ministries will allow Catholics to serve as volunteers and employees in its vast network of homeless shelters, thrift stores and drug-recovery programs and as parents to foster children in its government-funded foster care agency.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A lifetime of studying the three great monotheistic faiths
Patrick Ryan, S.J., has produced a book that is a word of culmination and ratification. It is a kind of extended amen at the end of a long life of scholarly faith and faithful scholarship.
Posted inFaith, News
1,000 global leaders address religious freedom at State Department
July 16 was the first day of the second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom at the U.S. Department of State.
Posted inFaith, News
In northern Nigeria, Muslims and Christians take small steps toward reconciliation
Lately, Muslims have been reaching out to Christians in northern Nigeria to seek reunion and deliver a message of peace, hope and solidarity that all Muslims are peace-loving people.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
A joyous celebration in Romania as Pope Francis beatifies seven bishop-martyrs
These “pastors and martyrs for the faith,” Pope Francis said, “re-appropriated and handed down to the Romanian people a precious legacy that we can sum up in two words: freedom and mercy.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis calls on Romanian and Hungarian Catholics ‘to live together as brothers and sisters’
“Complicated and sorrow-filled situations from the past must not be forgotten or denied,” he told the assembled during his homily, “yet neither must they be an obstacle or an excuse standing in the way of our desire to live together as brothers and sisters.”