On Feb 12 2005 two hired gunmen killed Sister Dorothy Stang 73 as she read aloud from the Bible in a remote settlement just off the Trans-Amazonian Highway As a tireless advocate for the poor and landless in Brazil for more than nbsp three decades the Ohio-born nun came into conflict with ruth

It all started with Richard Harding Davis the 1890s to World War I Hearst war correspondent-novelist-playwright so famous that it was said that wars were not allowed to start until he arrived mdash so rich earning as much as 3 000 a month handsome and well dressed even for battle that he repr

'My faith is what makes social justice make sense to me.'

Pope Francis on Feb 9 began what could be a key week for his reformist papacy starting with meetings with his hand-picked kitchen cabinet of nine senior cardinals who are developing plans to overhaul the Roman Curia the papal civil service that has been plagued with crisis and dysfunction The th

Sister Mary Ann Walsh say her experience of cancer “is like a living wake.”

Pope Francis rsquo s daily homilies offer spiritual nuggets He offered one sleeper on January 26 when he said that it is women who transmit the faith The concept has been offered before but sometimes it has seemed to be a mere platitude to appease women who may feel underappreciated in the church