Reading and Writing

The people and the revolution that sent tremors through the United States and the Vatican: The 1960s sparked revolutionary changes that swep...

On this day in 1945 the Nazis began to evacuate the Auschwitz concentration camp, ten days later liberated by the advancing Soviet troops. L...

"University of Arizona researchers have cracked one of the puzzles surrounding what has been called "the world's most mysterio...

Priests implicated in John Paul II assassination attempt : Polish priests working for the Soviet KGB could be informants for the plotters, a...

On November 16, 1989, special forces stormed the Universidad Centroamericana and assassinated six professors and two women. At the time civ...

In 1552 the princess, 17 at the time, married the heir to the Portuguese throne. When he died two years later, she returned to Spain. Young,...

Fr Jon Sobrino, SJ, in Edinburgh: He drew on his latest book, 'The Eye of the Needle' - No Salvation Outside the Poor' to contra...

There was a time when the church was very powerful. It was during that period when the early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worth...

This weekend marked the 18th anniversary of the event that inspired my latest novel: the assassination of the Jesuit scholars in El Salvador...

Today marks the anniversary of the death of one of the most significant figures in Liberation Theology and social justice. Dom Hélder Pesso...