Nicholson wanted her book to be grounded in Catholic theology. She didn't want anything -- not even her depiction of imaginary creatures such as vampires -- to be at odds with the church.

He said the West ignores Syrian and Iraqi Christians because they are neither oil-rich nor a terrorist threat.

San Diego Bishop Robert W. McElroy is challenging U.S. Catholics to take an active role in combating "the scourge of anti-Islamic prejudice.""We are witnessing in the United States a new nativism, which the American Catholic community must reject and label for the religious bigotry wh