Syria blamed the Islamic State group — entered with a rifle and began firing. As worshippers tackled him, he detonated an ...

When Ignatius became the bishop of Antioch around the year 70, he assumed leadership of a local Church that was, according to tradition, first led by St. Peter before his move to Rome.

St. Ignatius of Antioch. ... Ignatius was an Apostolic Father of the Church, a disciple, ... In 117 he was sentenced to death by the Emperor Trajan and arrested in Antioch.

It was just another bombing in a complicated corner of the Middle East, but this one was important — the Associated Press ...

Pope Leo XIV warned against the risk of “falling into a rut, a routine, a tendency to follow the same old pastoral plans ...