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What lies ahead: Catholic experts examine trends

From life issues to the war in Iraq to the Gulf Coast recovery, some predictions on key concerns for Catholics in 2006

This Veterans Day, remember those who've served

Openers

The eight-year war

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. The Catholic vision is that war may at times be a tragic necessity, but we need effective alternatives if we hope to end the conditions that lead to war.

Terrorism is main target as Pope calls for peace

Stressing need to end 'religious fanaticism,' messages shift emphasis from U.S. war in Iraq

Prelate's abduction latest attack on Iraq faithful

Vatican awaits word on Mosul's Chaldean archbishop amid prayers for his safe return

Persecution forces Iraqi Christians to flee

By Gerald Korson. Bishop links persecution to presence of U.S. military forces, especially in southern Iraq

Openers: BIshops stress U.S. 'moral responsibility' to Iraqi Christians

This column by John Norton has free access for all visitors. U.S. bishops take up the message of Iraq stability at annual fall meeting

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor for April 13, 2008

Iraqi visit reveals Christians faced with increasing threats

by Joan Lewis. An EWTN correspondent examines their lives amid growing religious persecution in the country

Iraqi refugees are difficult for aid to reach

Up to 15 percent of Iraq's 27.5 million citizens have been displaced since the war started.

Iraqi Christians suffering 'between two fires'

This article has free access for all visitors. After brazen Baghdad attack kills scores of Catholics at Mass, a plea for more military protection

Iraq war has tragic consequences for country’s Christians

By Russell Shaw. As Iraqi Catholics face terrible persecution, U.S. government must take concrete steps to help them. (Subscription required)

Iraq reconsidered

Russell Shaw explains how President Bush's new plan for a "surge" of troops raises more questions than answers.

Iraq is not quicksand yet

Congress and the president continue to debate situation and U.S. bishops try and offer advice

How Do We Preach on War?

Free for registered users. By Edward Lamp. Preach about the conversion of the heart and repentance.

Editorial: Which way to exit?

"To surge or not to surge" is not necessarily the critical question in President Bush's new Iraq strategy. Making a "responsible transition" and rebuild the Iraqi infrastructure to meet the needs of the Iraqi people is our foremost obligation.

Editorial: Staying the course in Iraq and Afghanistan

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. The way forward will require moral fortitude and resistance of the temptation to take the easy way out.

Editorial: Our new veterans

By the OSV Editorial Board. This Veterans Day, it would be worthwhile for Catholics to reflect on the human toll of war, and to ask ourselves what we are doing for those who have served our country.

Editorial: Nuclear arms club

By OSV Editorial Board. What was once unthinkable and the stuff of nightmares may now become first thinkable, then a viable military alternative.

Editorial: Martyrs for peace

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. The attackers shouted “kill, kill, kill,” when they entered the church, and immediately shot dead the priest.

Does Bush make grade with Catholics?

This article has free access for all visitors. By Russell Shaw. Does Bush make grade with Catholics? On stem-cell research and same-sex marriage he's been good, but he does not fare as well on war, health care and his Katrina response.

Deficit rises at the expense of programs for poor

The war in Iraq deepens the national debt; the poor suffer the consequences through social-services cuts.

Decorated Catholic military nurse worked to heal physical, pyschological wounds in Iraq

By Brian J. Lowney. Catholic nurse who was honored for her service in Iraq writes book about treating physical, psychological wounds in Mosul

Dead on arrival?

In the wake of the Iraq Study Group Report, our editorial laments the lack of consensus and direction on the U.S. endgame in Iraq.

As U.S. troops withdraw, Iraqi Catholics targeted

This article has free access for all visitors. By Jeff Gardner. Analysts say Islamic militants are trying to drive out last of nation's Christian minority

Amid civil strife, can America find an exit strate

Three years after invasion began, the outcome remains in doubt but moral judgment is clear