World War I
Can Pope Francis bring peace to Ukraine?
By Thomas Reese — May 31, 2023
(RNS) — The pope’s refusal to cheer either side in this war gives him credibility as mediator.
The WWI propaganda mosque: A new exhibit showcases a Muslim POW camp
By Kathryn Post — January 27, 2023
(RNS) — A new online exhibit from the National WWI Museum and Memorial presents the overlooked story of the Halbmondlager, a WWI Muslim prisoner of war camp.
The alienation of Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land,’ at 100, has come to feel like home
By Karen Swallow Prior — December 13, 2022
(RNS) — The December birthday ‘The Waste Land’ shares with Christmas foreshadows the Easter that is to come.
Unknown Soldier’s precarious journey home included chaplain’s prayer
By Adelle M. Banks — May 28, 2021
(RNS) — ‘The chaplain and the captain got together and he held a special service, praying to God that the ship wouldn’t sink,’ a Marine recalled decades later.
In the sacred stillness of Arlington National Cemetery
By A. James Rudin — November 10, 2019
(RNS) — A visitors to the cemetery recognizes the enormous price in military dead America has paid, and continues to pay, for our freedom.
How the Great War gave us the US Conference of Catholic Bishops
By Michael McKinley — November 12, 2018
(RNS) — The USCCB began as a war council gathered to present a patriotic Catholic face at a critical time for the US and American Catholics.
An ancient Jewish WWI veteran speaks
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 12, 2018
The most haunting story that I know. It’s about Veterans’ Day.
An irrelevant war?
By Martin E. Marty — April 11, 2017
...I used the season to revisit old accounts of that war and what it shows about how religious and other leaders can get swept up and caught up in hyper-nationalism, patriotic idolatry, and loss of self-critical (or prophetic) perspective.
Does Trump’s presidency signal the end of the ‘American Century’?
By A. James Rudin — January 25, 2017
(RNS) A 1917 speech to Congress by President Woodrow Wilson that concluded with a quintessential religio-political reference is the seedbed from which 'American exceptionalism' and 'indispensability' sprang.
Genocides and Holocausts: Never again (COMMENTARY)
By Tad Taube — April 24, 2015
(RNS) It strains the conscience of our modern societies to realize that 100 years after the death of 1.5 million Armenians, the threat of further genocide hangs heavy over our so-called “civilized world.”
Special liturgy atones for outbreak of ‘The Great War’
By Kimberly Winston — July 23, 2014
(RNS) A newly commissioned liturgy to commemorate the centennial of World War I is as much about atonement as it is about remembrance.
World War I at 100: New books examine the battle of beliefs behind the ‘Great War’
By Kimberly Winston — July 18, 2014
(RNS) “If you do not understand the messianic and apocalyptic imagery used by all sides, and how wide-ranging those images were among all classes, all groups, all nations, you cannot hope to understand the war," scholar Philip Jenkins says.
Was World War I a religious crusade? An interview with Philip Jenkins
By Jonathan Merritt — May 22, 2014
A distinguished historian argues that The Great War was also a holy war that reshaped every major religion of the 20th century.
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