“Terror is a Muslim issue, an Islamic issue within the house of Islam,” said M. Zuhdi Jasser, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, “and we must own it” to fight it.

Filmmaker William Riead describes the 14 years of 'spiritual warfare' behind 'The Letters,' now in theaters.

Own good fortune seems to have made us not generous and confident but anxious and apprehensive.

In the aftermath of the Nov. 13 terror attacks in Paris, anxiety is understandable, said Bill Canny, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Office of Migration and Refugee Services. But governors and other politicians are not responding reasonably by calling for a &ldqu

The perhaps most treacherous mistake in the aftermath of the Paris attacks is to be deceived by the glamour of retribution.

Governors and other politicians are not responding reasonably by calling for a “pause,” even the termination of efforts to resettle Syrian refugees.

The Refugee Resettlement Program program — which relies mostly on faith-based organizations to find homes, jobs and schools for refugees — is under attack, a casualty of the Islamic State group’s assaults on Paris Nov. 13 that killed 132 people.

Using God’s name to try to justify violence and murder is “blasphemy,” Pope Francis said on Nov. 15, speaking about the terrorist attacks in Paris. “Such barbarity leaves us dismayed and we ask ourselves how the human heart can plan and carry out such horrible events,”

The theory of a “clash of civilizations” prevents us from understanding the reality of terrorism. It also leads us to wrong answers.

The Christian must strive to live, and even to die, as Christ did: generous in adversity, vulnerable in love.