Secretary of State John Kerry and the U.S. State Department significantly raised the bar both on the ambitions and expectations for upcoming negotiations between West Bank Palestinians and the State of Israel. The wild card left out of the new discussions, which have set the laudable but so far elus

Paolo Dall'Oglio, S.J., has spent more than 30 years promoting Muslim-Christian dialogue.

The career of the former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican spanned 60 years.

Pope Francis responded to reporters' questions on his way home from Brazil.

"Today, either we stake all on dialogue, or we all lose," Pope Francis said.

Acknowledging the Catholic Church's heavy loss of members in Brazil over recent decades, Pope Francis told the country's bishops that they must learn to understand and sympathize with the reasons for people's disaffection and speak to them in a simpler language of beauty, mystery and lov