Photographic images helped to end the war in Vietnam a Vietcong prisoner shot point-blank in his temple a screaming young girl running naked after a napalm attack a Buddhist monk transformed into a human torch in protest of the war Since then American troops go to war under Pentagon-imposed

A story from the pope's cathedral that's too good not to be true

What Jennifer Lawrence can teach us about our pasts, on this side of the grave and beyond.

Here rsquo s how young Pip learned that he had great expectations One day the lawyer Mr Jaggers showed up at the forge where young Pip lived and worked and said to Joe the blacksmith Pip rsquo s adult brother-in-law I am instructed to communicate to him rdquo said Mr Jaggers throwing his

A reflection for the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

We see life rsquo s most important scenes more fully through the lenses of time and memory Sometimes there rsquo s a surfeit in the original spectacle too many rich details to absorb With the distance of years they come into focus and we recognize their import Jesus likens the kingdom of heaven

A reflection for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time by Rev. Terrance Klein.

Saying that you’d like God to get his own TV show is like saying you want the studio cameras to focus in on the light.

Religion both inspires our confidence in human intelligence and, in suggesting what might even exceed it, calls it to account.

A reflection from Rev. Terrance Klein on the Exaltation of the Holy Cross