ROME – In a wide-ranging sit-down interview, new United States Ambassador to the Holy See Brian Burch addressed several hot-button foreign policy issues, including the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, and the thorny… US immigration law ‘not rooted in hate or xenophobia,’ ambassador says
Two months ago, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said the state would make assisted suicide available to terminally ill people determined by doctors to have less than six months to live. There were already 12… Assisted suicide increases rates of non-medical suicide, statistics show
Vatican Media/Wikimedia Commons (L-R) Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Agostino Casaroli. COMMENTARY: The Italian cardinal’s Ostpolitik diplomacy is considered a key to the collapse of European communism. It was nothing of the sort.
ROME — The Vatican on Wednesday announced a busy and lengthy foreign travel schedule for Pope Leo XIV in the first half of 2026, confirming the pontiff will visit Monaco, Spain and four African nations… Pope Leo will visit 4 African countries as part of his packed 2026 travel plan
ROME – United States Ambassador to the Holy See Brian Burch, in an exclusive sit-down interview with Crux Now, said he sees the potential for a “Catholic Moment” in the U.S. given the high-profile Catholics in… US Ambassador sees potential for ‘Catholic Moment’ with Leo
Tribal converts to Christianity fighting in federal court to secure the final resting places of their fellows in India’s Chhattisgarh state won a significant battle last week, but their saga is far from over. A… India’s Supreme Court grants temporary relief to tribal Christians in burial dispute
Vatican Media Pope Leo XIV with Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim, Norway, at the Vatican on Feb. 22, 2024. As the Roman Curia’s Lenten retreat continued, Cistercian abbot-bishop Erik Varden reflected on St. Bernard of… Vatican Spiritual Exercises: St. Bernard ‘the Idealist’
Rudolf Gehrig/EWTN NewsBishop Heiner Wilmer of Hildesheim poses for cameras after his election as chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference at the spring plenary assembly in Würzburg on Feb. 24, 2026. Bishop Heiner Wilmer of… New German Bishops’ Chairman Calls for ‘God at the Center’ Amid Reform Tensions
An exterior view of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles on Feb. 6, 2025. The hospital announced two days before that it was pausing the initiation of hormonal therapy for ‘gender-affirming-care patients’ under the age of 19… The Tide Is Turning Against Transgender Ideology
Marking the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the leader of the Catholic Church in the embattled eastern European nation says Pope Leo XIV sees the conflict in a “European context.” Ukrainians on Tuesday were… On anniversary of Russian invasion, Major Archbishop says Pope Leo understands Ukraine