Ruth Graham

1 week ago | ksml.fi | Jason Horowitz |Julie Bosman |Elizabeth Dias |Ruth Graham |Simon Romero |Mitra Taj

Näin isä Bobista tuli paavi Leo. Isä Robert Prevost käski perulaisia sotilaita perääntymään. Oli 1990-luvun puoliväli. Vahvasti aseistautuneet sotilasjoukot olivat pysäyttäneet minibussin ja nousseet sen kyytiin. Bussissa oli yhdysvaltalainen katolilainen pappi Prevost ja joukko nuoria perulaisia seminaarilaisia.

3 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Ruth Graham

NEW YORK - The attack on demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, marching in support of Israeli hostages being held in the Gaza Strip would have been disturbing to Jewish people across the country even if it were the only recent event of its kind. The suspect told investigators after his arrest that he had been planning the attack for a year, according to court documents. Eight people were hospitalised. For many, the connections to other recent outbursts of violence were impossible to miss.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Ruth Graham

The attack in Colorado on a march for Israeli hostages on Sunday contributed to a sense that simply existing in public as a Jewish person is increasingly dangerous. The attack on demonstrators in Boulder, Colo., marching in support of Israeli hostages would have been disturbing to Jewish people across the country even if it was the only such event of its kind. The suspect told investigators after his arrest that he had been planning the attack for a year, according to court documents.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Ruth Graham |Elizabeth Dias |Jason Horowitz

"There is no room in Augustine's concept of authority for one who is self-seeking and in search of power over others," he wrote in the 167-page text. Almost 40 years ago, an American graduate student in Rome was closely examining the question of what it meant to be a wise and effective leader in the Catholic Church.

1 month ago | spokesman.com | Jason Horowitz |Julie Bosman |Elizabeth Dias |Ruth Graham

VATICAN CITY — Father Robert Prevost told the Peruvian soldiers to back off. It was the mid-1990s, and the troops, armed to the teeth, had stopped and boarded a minibus carrying the American priest and a group of young Peruvian seminarians. The soldiers tried to forcibly recruit the men. Citing a law that exempted clerics from military service, Prevost told the soldiers, “No, these young men are going to be priests; they cannot go to the barracks,” said the Rev.