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Most Americans say Islamic State atrocities are genocide

Jan 06, 2016

Most Americans support a broad recognition of Islamic State atrocities against Christians and other minorities as genocide, a recent survey says.
Mother Teresa: 2016’s Saint of Mercy

Jan 05, 2016

It’s official: Blessed Mother Teresa will be canonized in 2016. On Dec. 17, Pope Francis approved the second miracle attributed to her intercession.
Toddler becomes first casualty of refugee crisis in 2016

Jan 05, 2016

A toddler has become the first known victim of the refugee crisis this year, when the dinghy he was in with 30 other migrants capsized off the shore of a remote Greek island.
Scottish aristocrat to take Vatican backed Passion play to notorious Italian prison

Jan 05, 2016

Sir Jack Stewart-Clark has won the Vatican’s approval to take a play dramatising the last days of Christ to a notorious Italian jail.
A bloody secret still haunts the diamond industry

Jan 04, 2016

Imagine being woken up in the middle of the night by a dark figure in your room. He presses a gun to your head and demands that you get up.
The New Year is a good time to contemplate the Four Last Things

Jan 01, 2016

Today is the last day of the old year and my thought are turning to what Catholics call “The Four Last Things”.
Here’s what Bishop Conley sees as the purpose of education

Jan 01, 2016

Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Neb. vividly remembers his father asking him what on earth he planned to do with his English degree.
Nuns, guns and the Wild West: The extraordinary tale of Sr. Blandina

Dec 31, 2015

Billy the Kid, a notorious bank and stage-coach robber of the Wild West, met his match in the most unlikely of people when he met Sister Blandina Seg
What is the devil's favorite sin? An exorcist responds

Dec 29, 2015

Is an exorcist afraid? What is the devil’s favorite sin? These and other questions were tackled in an interview this summer with the Dominican priest, Father Juan Jose Gallego, an exorcist from the Archdiocese of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain.
Will Year of Mercy Offer New ‘Opening’ on Abortion?

Dec 29, 2015

After news headlines marked a Year of Mercy initiative to grant absolution for the sin of abortion, the Project Rachel hotline for the Archdiocese of Boston rang off the hook.