Christians and Muslims must, as never before, join hands to bear witness to God’s sovereignty, to God’s love for each and every member of the human family, to God’s desire that we lead upright lives.

Every citizen, whether aligned with the political right or the left, must denounce these crimes against our Jewish brothers and sisters.

Upon hearing about some unthinkable violence somewhere in the world, the first thing I do when I get to the church on Sunday morning is pencil another intention into the prayers of the faithful. In some small way, it feels like a solemn duty.

For the first time in its 82-year history, Miracle Hill Ministries will allow Catholics to serve as volunteers and employees in its vast network of homeless shelters, thrift stores and drug-recovery programs and as parents to foster children in its government-funded foster care agency.

Patrick Ryan, S.J., has produced a book that is a word of culmination and ratification. It is a kind of extended amen at the end of a long life of scholarly faith and faithful scholarship.

July 16 was the first day of the second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom at the U.S. Department of State.