A Vatican report on women deacons published last week said that women could not be admitted to the diaconate “understood as a ...

Inequality is the root of social evil,” according to the late Pope Francis. The French economist and inequality scholar ...

The spirit of Vatican II may still live on, but its practical effects (with the exception of Mass in the vernacular) are ...

His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, head of the Catholic Church, met yesterday at the Vatican with the jury of the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity 2026, and discussed with its members the urgent need to take ...

If young Irish men and women die face-down in the Donbas mud, they will know they died to the applause of the main parties in ...

Sir Keir Starmer holds talks with the Belgian premier on the prospect of using frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine amid ...

The very first live Nativity scene, it is said, was created by St. Francis of Assisi, who staged a reenactment of the birth ...

The variations reflect variations in human cultures. Learning to cope with this will be a valuable process in itself.

A federal judge says the Justice Department can publicly release investigative materials from a sex trafficking case against ...

US President Donald Trump dismissed Pope Leo XIV’s criticisms of his aggressive immigration agenda, saying he’s not seen the pontiff’s remarks. Leo recently offered strong support for the US ...

Pope Leo replaced Cardinal Timothy Dolan as leader of the Catholic Church in New York, the Vatican announced on Thursday, ...

The appointment of Bishop Ronald A. Hicks is expected to bring a markedly different leadership style to New York’s ...