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New Army chaplains attend a March 14 morning Mass in a small chapel at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C., where they are training at the U.S. Army's Chaplain Basic Officer Leader Course. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth) 
FaithFaith in Focus
10 years after fighting in Iraq, I have found healing in the Catholic Church
Jesse Bowman November 09, 2017
In Iraq, I witnessed death and tragedy, and without faith, I had no way to process it.
FaithNews
After the Hobby Lobby scandal, a spotlight on antiquities sales in Israel
Michele Chabin - Religion News Service August 17, 2017
Israel's 1978 Antiquities Law was tightened in 2012 and again last year, so that all licensed dealers are now required to share images of everything in their inventory.
Politics & SocietyNews
Syriac Catholic patriarch says West has 'betrayed' Christian minorities
Denis Grasska - Catholic News Service August 15, 2017
He said the West ignores Syrian and Iraqi Christians because they are neither oil-rich nor a terrorist threat.
Airstrikes target Islamic State positions on the edge of the Old City on July 11 a day after Iraq's prime minister declared "total victory" in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Mosul residents flee into desert as ISIS is driven from the city; Catholic Relief Services responds
Kevin Clarke July 13, 2017
Many have simply walked from the city to the desert camps, a distance of 20 to 30 kilometers, says Mr. El-Mahdi. Now they confront hunger, thirst and the desert’s unforgiving sun. “The summer heat is brutal.”
President George W. Bush addresses the media at the Pentagon on Sept. 17, 2001, following a meeting with his national security team and leaders of the National Guard and Reserve forces. Seated at the left is National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.
Arts & CultureBooks
Confessions of a CIA interrogator
Jerome Donnelly May 03, 2017
Jerome Donnelly reviews "Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein" by John Nixon.
A nun walks through the hallway of the badly damaged convent of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena in Qaraqosh, Iraq. (CNS photo/courtesy John E. Kozar, CNEWA)
Politics & SocietyNews
The next few months will decide Christians' fate in a scarred Iraq
Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service April 11, 2017
"ISIS had written really vile things about Jesus and the church. The convent was burned and gutted. Everything was stolen. Anything holy in their mind was burned."
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