Stephanie Celustka prayed at Mass for an end to the Islamic State threat in the Middle East. The parishioner from San Diego’s St. Anne Catholic Church is among the 53 percent of Americans who said in a September Pew poll that they support a U.S. military campaign against ISIS, as the Islamic m
Bishop calls for stronger monitoring and transparency in coal mining practices.
Recalling the words of St. John Paul II—“Don’t be afraid! Open your hearts wide to Christ”— Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, S.J., of Ottawa urged Canadians to remain steadfast after a shooting that left a Canadian soldier dead on Oct. 22. • Twelve Chaldean religio
The recent extraordinary assembly of the Synod of Bishops is likely to go down as a milestone in the history of the church. It was the first time since Paul VI established this organ of collegiality on Sept. 15, 1965, that the assembly “truly functioned as a synod and not a staged gathering of