Religious leaders hope the latest peace deal will bring an end to attacks on churches and mosques.

"As I see it, this problem is rooted in our society's broader loss of the awareness of God," the archbishop said.

The largest association of religious sisters in the United States called Thursday for an overhaul of the male-led leadership structure of the Catholic Church.

That many religions exist in the world is a fact, but what that plurality communicates to believers about God is a question that theologians are still discussing.

The bishop said he believed that the current revelations are being used by the Holy Spirit to open the church “to a fuller understanding of ecclesiology that began over a half century ago.”