In official reports of the closed-door talks at the Synod of Bishops on the family, an emerging theme has been the call for a new kind of language more appropriate for pastoral care today."Language appeared many, many times," Basilian Father Thomas Rosica, the briefer for English-speaking

Gathered with Pope Francis, members of the Synod of Bishops on the family issued a message of solidarity, support and prayers for all families suffering the impact of war and violence, especially in Iraq and Syria.The members prayed particularly for those who, "because of the Christian faith th

Families of 43 students who "disappeared" in Guerrero state spend their time praying at the teacher training college the students attended.They plead for intervention from Our Lady of Guadalupe and pray the rosary in front of a makeshift St. James shrine, adorned with flowers placed in pla

Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi won the 95th Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work promoting education rights for children in a year that has been anything but peaceful.The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited the two “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young peo

Speakers ask synod fathers to stop giving 'contradictory advice' on birth control.

Captors released a Franciscan priest who was among about 20 Christians kidnapped from a Syrian village near the border with Turkey, said the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land. Franciscan Father Hanna Jallouf was being held under house arrest in a convent in Knayeh, a small Christian village i