What ‘Alienates’ People from the Church? by Father Gerald E. Murray of The Catholic Thing - Big Pulpit

ISIS’s Largely Ignored Practice of Sexual Slavery of Christians and Yazidi – John Burger, Aleteia

The Importance of Showing Up – Autumn Jones, Catholic Stand

Last Remnants of Syrian Rite Remain in the Mar Mattai Monastery – Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Wall Street Journal

Church to be Built in Egypt in Honor of Christians Killed by I.S.I.S. – Staff Reporter, Catholic Herald Magazine

12 Treasures of Antiquity Destroyed in the Middle East Since 2001 – Thomas L. McDonald, Aleteia

Syriac Catholic Monastery of Mar Elian, Destroyed by ISIS, United Christians, Muslims – Emma Loosley, Catholic Herald Magazine

What the Eastern Orthodox Can Learn from Pope Francis – Fr. John Jillions, Pravmir

Melkite Archbishop Urges British Not to Support Militants in Syria – Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald Magazine

Revelation Chapter 12: The Millennium in Catholic Tradition (Catholic Apocalypse) – Taylor Marshall Ph.D.

Pope Francis and the Absurdly Vexed Calendar Question – Adam A. J. De Ville Ph.D., Aleteia

The Icon: Point of Unity Between Catholics and Orthodox – Mark Cyprian Chapman Obl.S.B., Come Down O Love Divine

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