These are the opening words of the front-page editorial of The Catholic Herald published four days after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

Deep inside Syria, a bishop worked around the blurred edges of international law to save the lives of more than 200 people.

"God asked the church especially to be a sign of his love by continuing to open up a space where our service to one another can be manifested," Bishop Daniel E. Flores said.

The New York archdiocese's program lets people take claims to a noted outside mediator while keeping painful details private.

After two Christmas seasons in which the political reality had overtaken holiday cheer, people seemed primed to finally feel some merriment in Bethlehem.

They "pray, pray" that family members can get out of northern Iraq before a major Islamic State attack.