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America’s holy war in Iran

This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio characterized the leadership of Iran as “radical Shiite clerics” who make geopolitical decisions based on “pure theology.” That’s deeply ironic because an ...
The 40 days of Lent give us the opportunity to grow in our response to the Lord’s love through faith. The Sunday gospels for the next three weeks come from the Gospel of John. In these passages we ...
Lent is a season devoted to prayer, fasting and almsgiving. It’s also a time when we are most likely to commit to daily ...
Hundreds of Catholic faithful from Liberia’s Diocese of Cape Palmas gathered in Sasstown for the ninth annual pilgrimage to ...
When the war broke out in 1948, their grandmother and her family, the Alkoors, were forcibly displaced from their home, unable to ever return. Their fate was the same as 750,000 Palestinian families, ...
Jesuit Father Anthony Wieck was leading a group of pilgrims in Jerusalem when the U.S. and Israel began launching strikes ...
Later on in Luke’s Gospel, Jesus will speak another phrase that has become a proverb: “To whom much is given, much will be required.” There it is again, the assertion that God does show special favor ...