We have all the power we need for daily acts of resistance and hope.

Is it worth the time to engage with people who are convinced their version of reality is right? 

When Ya’akov Edelstein, an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor, agreed to a bar mitzvah ceremony he never had as a child, he asked that it take place at Haifa’s Home for Holocaust Survivors.

Although Edelstein and his wife live in a comfortable senior citizen residence in this northern Israeli city, he wanted to celebrate this milestone—73 years late—at the survivors’ home: “I wanted to mark this day with people who experienced what I experienced. No one can appreciate this the way they can.”

I am a black man, and will always be so. Therefore, when I move about in the United States people first see my blackness and not my education. This means ongoing vulnerability because my blackness still is interpreted as criminal through a racialized lens. 

As I marched alongside sisters, mothers, and daughters, I remembered how my religious upbringing robbed me of my ability to love.

Many churches have signs declaring that all are welcome. But are their buildings really inviting to the community around them?

While the Iraqi conflict is not over, Archbishop Yousif Mirkis of Kirkuk is focused on how to heal his deeply divided country.

He called for a Marshall Plan for Iraq, referring to U.S. aid to Western Europe after World War II, during a visit to Paris to raise funds for an educational project he oversees. He is part of the Chaldean Church, which represents Catholics from Iraq and neighboring countries.

Through the project several hundred university students—Christians, Yazidis, and Muslims—study and live together.

I share Dutch Calvinist heritage with Trump's pick for education secretary. I wonder if we see God's kingdom the same way.

Moonlight is hard to watch—but also essential viewing—because of what it reveals about us as humans.

More than 500 years after the Jews were expelled from Sicily, a tiny Jewish community will open its first synagogue in the island’s capital city of Palermo.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Palermo transferred a chapel to the Jewish community. That chapel, the Oratory of Santa Maria al Sabato, was built above the ruins of the Great Synagogue which once stood in the center of Palermo.

The archbishop of Palermo, Corrado Lorefice, described the initiative as a “gesture of hope” designed to build dialogue between Catholics and Jews.