When the much anticipated and much discussed preliminary session of the Synod on the Family concludes on Sunday Oct 19 2014 a concelebration of the Mass will take place at the Vatican and will be presided over by Pope Francis along with the bishops and cardinals who attended and participated in

It is hard to believe but it appears that a five year court odyssey for a Pakistani Christian mother of five will continue Yesterday an appeals court in Pakistan upheld the death sentence against nbsp Asia Bibi for quot blasphemy quot against Islam Bibi 45 has been imprisoned since 2009 while

Got a brief reminder this morning nbsp from nbsp Jesuit Refugee Services nbsp about a Jesuit missing in Afghanistan now four months nbsp in the form of a letter to the nbsp teachers and students at a school in Sohadat in western Afghanistan where Father Alexis Prem Kumar was known and is missed It

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America magazine and nbsp Saint Thomas More Chapel nbsp at Yale University seeking to recognize the finest nbsp literary work of Roman nbsp Catholic intelligence and imagination announce the creation of the George W Hunt Prize a 25 000 award that nbsp will nbsp consider works in a variety of ge