Political correctness makes honest discussion impossible, and thus both sides resort to censorship. One side bans minarets, the other prohibits the national flag, while neither dares address the real ...

They praise the symbols not because of what the symbols do, but because they hope the symbols will relieve them from having to do anything at all. The symbols have no substance.

The latest face of the historic refugee crisis in Europe is a 5-year-old Syrian girl who drowned Saturday when the inflatable boat she was on sank off the Greek island of Lesbos. Rescuers found the… ...

(RNS) — As fire devastates the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, the building is as much a symbol of the recent history of the Catholic Church in Europe as it once was a symbol of the Church’s ...