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A man weeps as he carries his daughter away from an Islamic State-controlled part of Mosul toward Iraqi special forces soldiers during a battle on March 4. (CNS photo/Goran Tomasevic, Reuters)
Politics & Society Dispatches
March 29, 2017
Pope Francis joined a chorus of humanitarian relief and human rights critics who urged the United States to do more to avoid noncombatant deaths.
A young family poses for a photo in Monrovia, Liberia, March 24, 2016 (CNS photo/Ahmed Jallanzo, EPA).
Politics & Society Dispatches
March 24, 2017
Some of the tensions still troubling Liberian life have deep social and historical roots.
Boeing's Apache attack helicopter is one of America's leading exports. (iStock/MR1805)
Politics & Society Dispatches
March 21, 2017
The United States dominates an annual global weapons export market that has topped $100 billion.
Deacon Mark Herrmann baptizes 4-month-old Victoria Marie Domke at St. Jude Church in Mastic Beach, N.Y., in 2013. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Faith News
March 08, 2017
Describing the vocation crisis as an “enormous problem,” Pope Francis suggested he sympathizes with Catholics who come to Mass only to discover that there is no priest available to celebrate the Eucharist.
Students from various schools in the Diocese of Nashville, Tenn., provide music during a Mass on Feb. 1in celebration of Catholic Schools Week. (CNS photo/Rick Musacchio, Tennessee Register)
Politics & Society In All Things
March 01, 2017
Throwing something of a damper on the voucher enthusiasm is a string of recent studies that have cast doubt on the impact at the individual level of choice experiments.
A young boy has his arm measured in October 2016 to see if he is suffering from malnutrition during a nutritional assessment at an emergency medical facility supported by UNICEF in Kuach, on the road to Leer, in South Sudan. Famine has been declared Monday, Feb. 20, 2017 in two counties of South Sudan. (Kate Holt/UNICEF via AP)
Politics & Society Dispatches
February 24, 2017
As civil strife threatens greater disorder, a famine looms in South Sudan; Pope Francis urges intervention.
Jasper Spillman, of Lawrence, Kan., joins others departing from the "water protectors" main camp on Feb. 22, 2017, near Cannon Ball, N.D. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
Politics & Society News
February 23, 2017
The Jesuits invite people of good will and members of Congress to call on the administration to reverse its decision the Dakota access pipeline.
Politics & Society Dispatches
February 09, 2017
Despite simplistic language that depicts a flood of undocumented migrants crossing the U.S. southern border, migration from Mexico has slowed considerably in recent years and even reversed.
Arts & Culture Books
February 09, 2017
'The Assassination of a Saint' begins like a crime thriller, complete with a criminal manhunt.
Demonstrators outside Tom Bradley International Terminal during a protest by airport service workers from United Service Workers West union on Jan. 30, 2017, at Los Angeles International Airport. The vigil is in support of travelers affected by the executive order restricting travel from seven primarily Muslim countries. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Politics & Society Dispatches
January 31, 2017
Philip A. Lacovara noticed some similarities to his epic experience more than 43 years ago during Watergate’s infamous Saturday Night Massacre