Religious extremism Archives

Francis offers reassuring hand to a world darkened by war

January 9, 2017

Pope Francis struck a sombre tone in his annual address to ambassadors, as if detecting in this moment the signs of the coming of war. While putting down red markers over Israel-Palestine and migration, the heart of his message was the need to make peace in a time of turbulence.

Crux columnist gets top South Carolina civilian honor

Father Jeffrey Kirby, who writes a regular Sunday spirituality column for Crux, has been awarded the Order of the Palmetto, South Carolina’s highest civilian honor, by Governor Nikki Haley. In accepting, Kirby said his work among other things is crafted to show a different face for faith beyond religious extremism.

Is Africa’s emerging superpower on the brink of religious war?
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- June 16, 2016
With one expert saying what’s happening in Nigeria is “one of the worst, most neglected humanitarian crises in the world,” Africa’s most populous nation, and the country with the largest populations of Christians and Muslims living side-by-side, may be about to erupt along ethnic and religious lines.
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Chaplains work to uproot radicalization in prisons
- Catholic News Service, Church, Global Church
- May 21, 2016
VATICAN CITY — With visits to detention facilities and washing the feet of the detainees, Pope Francis has placed renewed emphasis on the work of mercy of visiting prisoners. However, some see a growing urgency for the Church to be present in cell blocks not just as part of its
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Top Vatican diplomat backs use of force in wake of Paris attacks
- Church
- November 16, 2015
ROME — In the wake of ISIS-inspired terrorist attacks in Paris over the weekend, the Vatican’s top diplomat has supported military intervention to disarm “an unjust aggressor” and also acknowledged that the Vatican itself could be a target “because of its religious significance.” Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary
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