Death toll in the conflict has grown to more than 5,300 people since April.

Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero will be beatified in San Salvador "certainly within the year and not later, but possibly within a few months," said Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the postulator or chief promoter of the archbishop's sainthood cause.Speaking to reporters Feb. 4, the day

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12 bipartisan bills introduced "to protect the most vulnerable out there."

Father John Garvey, a priest of the Orthodox Church and longtime Commonweal columnist, who died Jan. 20, "had a rare capacity for conversation, and especially for listening," said veteran religion writer Peter Steinfels.A former executive editor of the New York-based lay Catholic journal o

New coalition appears ready to treat religious minorities with "openness and equality."