“We grew to learn about each other…We grew to see each other as human beings.”
War and Peace
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Soldiers have always needed drugs to get them through their brutal missions.
How can we justify the military giving addictive pills to their warriors?
Posted inFaith
Hope: The forgotten virtue of our time.
To live in hope is to want nothing less for ourselves than what God wants for us. If that were the fundamental desire of our lives, what would change? How would we be resurrected?
Posted inFaith, News
Hope powers the lives of Christians in Gaza
“It is very encouraging to witness the faith of the community of Christians living in that enclosed space and also in the midst of a huge Muslim community majority,” said Cardinal Nichols.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Pope Francis denounces the ‘basic terrorism’ of a global economy built on exclusion and war
“We must help to heal the world of its moral atrophy,” the pope said at the World Meeting of Popular Movements.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
Nineveh Christians Await Outcome Of Mosul Offensive Against ISIS
More than 100,000 Christians from the area had already left. The archbishop of Mosul begged the remainder to flee, too.“They [Kurdish fighters] left us alone, and we were few in number with no weapons, and we could do nothing to face the Islamic State,” said Banni. “We ran.”A
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
Continue Cease-Fire
Colombia’s Catholic bishops urged the government and armed rebels to commit to an indefinite cease-fire while a new peace deal is negotiated after voters rejected an agreement that would have formally ended the Western Hemisphere’s longest-running war. Following a meeting on Oct. 13-14,
Posted inBooks, Politics & Society
The US plan for Iraq killed thousands—and created ISIS. What does that mean for Syria?
Trying to impose the will of the United States on Iraq (and now Syria) took a deadly toll, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, destroying much of modern and ancient Iraq, sending into exile millions of refugees—and created ISIS.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
South Africa Bishops Urge Government to Reconsider Withdrawal from International Court
The bishops said they were deeply concerned that a South African withdrawal will “influence and encourage other African countries to leave the court en masse.”
Posted inCurrent Comment, Politics & Society
The U.S. torture program has ended. But for its victims, the trauma continues.
The United States strives to both honor and assist our wounded veterans; but how do we treat our enemies?