Two prominent Syrian bishops were kidnapped on Monday by armed rebels in the northern province of Aleppo according to a Vatican Radio report The Syriac Orthodox and Greek Orthodox Archbishops of Aleppo Yohanna Ibrahim and Paul Yazigi were seized in the village of Kfar Dael on the road to Aleppo

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is a visiting research fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism mdash The Hague and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington D C He responded by e-mail to a few questions in the aftermath of the apprehension of the second su

This letter to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posted on the Facebook page of Michael Rogers SJ received almost 20 000 shares since Rogers a Jesuit scholastic studying in Rome in preparation for ordination in June posted it yesterday nbsp Mr Rogers a New England Province scholastic whose brother ran in l

In the wake of yesterday 39 s dramatic frightening shocking inspiring and violent events in Boston which gripped the nation there is a great deal for us to pray for nbsp In fact after so much fear violence and tension yesterday especially in Boston and especially in Watertown today is p

As we mentioned last week fifty years ago the Second Vatican Council was between sessions so there was not much news coming from Rome In the issue of April 20 1963 the editors turned their attention to other matters of importance while the magazine 39 s chief film critic Moira Walsh assesse

WASHINGTON mdash The chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops USCCB expressed ldquo deep disappointment in the Senate rsquo s failure to support reasonable regulations to reduce gun violence in our nation rdquo in an April 18