A Vatican conference represents the beginning of a coordination of Catholic universities, institutions and bishops's conferences on this issue.

In Iraq, I witnessed death and tragedy, and without faith, I had no way to process it.

Daniel Berrigan, S.J., went from a poet to an activist, and turned activism into poetry.

This is a book about war, about inhumane acts, about personal and institutional instincts of self-preservation.

The Great War had a tincture of tragic elegy.... World War II, by contrast, was thoroughly modern, disengaged from any romantic past.

Mogadishu was rocked to its core on Oct. 14 by a truck bombing that left 358 dead and hundreds wounded. The missing are still being sifted for among the scorched rubble.