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Pope Leo XIV closed the Vatican’s weeklong Lenten spiritual exercises Friday by thanking retreat preacher Bishop Erik Varden ...

A writer who saw Dresden and decried Iraq still teaches us about war, brutality and the human capacity for resilience.

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It is tempting to think we must keep up with the world’s fashions. It is, I’d say, a dubious procedure. The Church, a ...

Under the relentless gaze of St. Peter being crucified upside down, painted by Michelangelo between 1545 and 1550, Pope Leo and the curial cardinals are currently following the sermons of ...

The current ecological crisis is exacerbated by the "us vs. them" mentality and the rapacious global capitalistic system, which is perpetuated by the tyranny of the profit motive and power flowing ...

The crowds had grown ecstatic by the last leg of the monks’ 2,300-mile journey. Thousands lined streets in the nation’s ...