Pope Leo XIV’s election marks a new chapter in the church’s social mission, renewing its commitment to global peace, justice, and human dignity while guiding the church in an increasingly ...

The mood in Jerusalem on the evening of May 8 shifted between disappointment and relief as Pope Leo XIV stepped onto the balcony at St. Peter’s. Many Christians in the Holy Land had pinned their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why revisit an encyclical published May 15, 1891? Rerum Novarum, or “Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor,” is widely seen as the foundational text of Catholic social teaching. It was penned ...

La Croix: You followed the election of Pope Leo XIV from Villanova University, near Philadelphia, where you teach—and where the pope had studied mathematics and philosophy in the 1970s.

The October 2024 assembly marked the most female-inclusive synod in Church history. Around 50 women took part—and voted—in the second session of the Synod on Synodality. The right to vote at ...

Maria Clara Luchetti Bingemer is a leading figure in contemporary liberation theology with a focus on mysticism. She holds a doctorate in systematic theology from the Gregorian University in Rome.

The architecture of the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai, a major city in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu, follows a symbolic representation of the human body. At the end of the year, sanctified ...

The Trump age coincides with a new “Catholic moment” in the United States. And it’s certainly different from the previous ones, such as the early 1960s with the presidency of John F.

Francis II? Benedict XVII? John Paul III? One of the most symbolic acts at the start of a new papacy is the choice of a pope’s name. Once elected by the College of Cardinals, the new bishop of ...

Two years into Sudan’s brutal war, regional powers fuel the violence while Western nations offer aid but no political ...