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President Barack Obama announces executive actions to reduce gun violence as he meets with reporters in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Jan. 5. (CNS photo/Michael Reynolds, EPA)
Dispatches
Kevin Clarke
The president was most clearly moved when remembering the particularly horrific attack on the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Ct., in December 2012.
 Adam Driver, who plays villain Kylo Ren, stars in a scene from the movie "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." (CNS photo/Disney)
Dispatches
Jim McDermott
It’s really the story of Jesus, if you think about it.
Dispatches
Jim McDermott
Rather than focus on any one topic, here are ten things I enjoyed this year that you might like for the year to come 2016 (in no particular order).
Dispatches
Jim McDermott
Maybe the sadness that some of us feel at the holidays is not self-pity but invitation.
Pope Francis speaks after delivering his Christmas blessing "urbi et orbi" (to the city and the world) from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Dec. 25. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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Gerard O’Connell
In his Christmas Message to the world Pope Francis issued a heartfelt appeal for peace in many of the world rsquo s conflict areas He called in particular for an end to the violence and hatred that is spreading in the Holy Land and elsewhere in the Middle East as well as in several African countr
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Gerard O’Connell
Bishop Shomali: 'We hope that this wave of violence stops and more serious negotiations take place in view of a final settlement.'