La., defended the role of religion in public life during comments March 19 at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington. "Religion in the public sphere happens to be one of my favorite ...

Just war theory is back; not that it ever really left. But in recent years, writes Michael Sean Winters, there has been an ...

AmaWaterways has introduced a new City Escapes program, offering extended time in Europe’s cities along the Seine, Rhine and ...

He thought he was just moving through another stretch of ground in America. Then the shape on the road turned out to be something far worse: a WW2 anti-tank mine. The most shocking part is how close ...

Maria Nguyen Thi Tuyen waded through a sea of pilgrims before she could reach and touch the stone-made tomb of Father Francis Xavier Truong Buu Diep, who embraced martyrdom for faith in 1946. The ...

One striking feature of the current crisis is how widely the possibility of war was discounted. In the logic of deterrence politics, credibility matters. If threats are not believed, they fail. Yet if ...

ROME — Pope Leo XIV called Monday for an end to the U.S.-Israel war in Iran , issuing a new but still muted appeal as two of his U.S. cardinals condemned the war, rejected the rationale for launching ...

Archbishop Gabriele Caccia is the Vatican's new ambassador to the United States. He will be a liaison between Rome and the U.S.

Iran’s powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard answers to the supreme leader, and now the younger Khamenei will have the ...

At his Sunday Angelus, the Pope voiced alarm over violence and fear spreading from Iran across the region. Leo also reminded the faithful that the encounter with Christ stirs in the depths of each ...

Fighting across the Middle East intensified Sunday as Israel struck southern Lebanon, Beirut and oil storage facilities in Tehran.

Pope Leo XIV on Saturday named a veteran Vatican diplomat as his new ambassador to the United States to manage one of the ...