"Saint Theresa of Avila" (after 1669) by Luca Giordano (Naples 1634-Naples 1705) — Santa Teresa a Chiaia Church in Naples. (Photo by Carlo Raso / PDM 1.0) Before we return to the surprising link ...

Oppression or persecution of Christians by state and non-state actors were found in 75 percent of the 24 countries surveyed, according to the latest report by the pontifical foundation Aid to the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost didn’t write much. No sweeping interviews in Jesuit journals. No autobiographical catecheses. No manifestos. But in the quiet preface he penned for a textbook on social ...

We began by discussing climate disruption and soon broadened the conversation. “Everything is connected,” Francis wrote in Laudato si’. As an economist, I wanted to offer a few arguments to ...

File photo of refugees queueing for water in the Jamam camp, South Sudan. (Photo by DFID - UK Department for International Development / CC BY-SA 2.0) This is a war of superlatives. Doctors ...

Pope Leo XIV appears to have taken to heart a plea from one of his closest neighbors during the conclave—Cardinal Louis Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq. Seated beside him ...

Would Armenians face such violence if they weren’t overwhelmingly Christian? The director of a Catholic aid organization that assists Eastern Christians warns of continued persecution against ...

Father Ante Gabric (1915-1988), a Croatian Jesuit and Servant of God, spent 50 years in Bengal, eastern India, serving the poor through Eucharistic faith, radical simplicity and transformative ...

The Armenian people suffered horrific massacres in the 19th century under the Ottoman Empire — including the Hamidian massacres, which left 200,000 dead — followed by the Armenian Genocide of ...

and the name of Peter’s successor.

The disciples stand with their eyes raised to the sky, watching the one who taught them how to truly love disappear from view. It’s the moment of the Ascension. From the outside, it might just ...

The anniversary of Islamic revolution is celebrated on 11 February 1979 and Iranians march toward Azadi Tower in Theran, 11 February 2015. (Photo by Mostafameraji / CC BY-SA 4.0) We’ve talked so ...