Ukraine

An ethicist who supports nonviolence nonetheless finds practical and conceptual challenges when it is applied to the war in Ukraine.

Russia's seizure of Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine has undermined global nuclear security, while serving as a "wake-up call" to ending energy dependence on Russia, said experts at a recent panel discussion hosted by Manor College in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, a Catholic college.

During a recent trip to Ukraine and Poland, David Bonior witnessed the pride and resolve as the war moves into its second year.

Vicki and Ed Greenan were looking for a new mission in life, when Fr. Peter Daly suggested that parenting might still be their calling. Four years later, they have adopted six children with serious medical needs from Ukraine.

Columnist Michael Sean Winters looks ahead to the intersection between politics and religion in the next year.

Four refugee women from different parts of Ukraine thrown together by the sad fate of war say they are ending a turbulent year safe, secure and calm — though still uneasily in exile. They spoke to NCR in Warsaw.

Intermittent electricity and air raid sirens cannot and should not stop Ukrainians from celebrating the birth of Jesus, said Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk ofKyiv-Halych, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

In Michael Sean Winters' last links column, he rounds up the latest news. In the new year, look for a weekly newsletter that does much of the same.