The Responsibility to Protect the innovative international law doctrine that establishes a framework for international intervention in the domestic life of countries where significant numbers of people are subject to violence or grave deprivation seems tailor-made for the current civil war in Syri

Last week I met a woman named Beth whose example lodged itself deep inside my mind It so struck me that I have shared it as best I can five times since we met Beth runs Place of Promise a Christian non-profit with a residential program ldquo designed to help those who are hurting lost and

Blessed Peter Favre, St. Ignatius Loyola and St. Francis Xavier enjoyed a very close friendship, which began at the University of Paris, where the three were roommates. Fr. James Martin, SJ., offers a mediation on the friendship between the three men.

Just posted to our site from Brian Konzman S J The fifth annual World Science Festival took place over five days in New York City in June You can find my blog posts from the festival here I attended four events on a range of fascinating topics from the ldquo elusive neutrino rdquo to th

The State Department issued its annual report on religious freedom on July 30 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered a ldquo sobering rdquo global depiction of fundamental human right at risk ldquo More than a billion people live under governments that systematically suppress religious free

Here was an average man without much prior interest in religious observance, assuming that he could emulate two of the greatest saints in the Christian tradition.