Author Archives: Jessica Jacques

ST. IGNATIUS, Guyana — In an open-sided circular building beside the Catholic chapel in this Amerindian village, Scarboro Father Ron MacDonell was explaining how the tongue, the … Read More

VATICAN CITY — Christians and Hindus must resist pessimism and instead draw from and add to the “a hidden sea of goodness” that convinces many men and … Read More

CARACAS, Venezuela — Understanding the Bible can be challenging, but Catholics in Venezuela are becoming more familiar with Scripture through the work of a tech-savvy friar. Capuchin … Read More

NEW YORK  — The plight of the world’s refugees will be solved by politics, not by appeals to conscience or awareness of the tremendous scope of the … Read More

VATICAN CITY — The forests, rivers and swamps of the Amazon basin do many things. They lock away carbon and methane, two key greenhouse gases. They produce … Read More

WASHINGTON — The Army, like the rest of the military, is not immune from the destabilizing and sometimes crippling psychological traumas that affect civilians. Now, though, Army … Read More

ROME — Two men entered a Catholic Church near the Vatican early Oct. 21 and stole copies of a statue of a pregnant woman that had been … Read More

HIOWA, Guyana — Joseph Abraham, the son of two of the first teachers to work in Guyana’s remote Amerindian villages, never went to secondary school. Yet he … Read More