The war in Ukraine and international efforts to initiate a peace process have put global diplomacy in the spotlight. My impression is that neither the media nor its audience fully comprehends the ...

With the May 8 election of Pope Leo XIV, many commentators noted that the last Leonine pontificate gave us Catholic social teaching, that branch of moral theology that rose out of the experience of ...

Pope Leo XIV shared Sunday pranzo with a group of poor people from the Diocese of Albano. The luncheon was held in the gardens of the Castel Gandolfo. The people invited receive assistance from ...

When the newly elected pontiff stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to address the Catholic faithful on May 8, his first decision as pope — to take the papal name Leo — signaled the ...

(RNS) — Those who hoped an American pope would be more supportive of unregulated capitalism will be very disappointed in Leo. (RNS) — Immediately after his election, Robert Prevost signaled his ...

A majority of U.S. Catholic college students regularly participate in Mass and consider their Catholic beliefs and identity to be important, according to a survey conducted for the National Catholic ...

In 1891, Pope Leo XIII began the church’s tradition of social encyclicals with his “Rerum Novarum” (“Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor”). Leo XIII wrote in the context of a world whose economy ...

Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, meets with President Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Nov. 21. Credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci But Mr. Mamdani’s policy platform ...