A high-profile online controversy in early June reignited one of bioethics’ most charged debates: the morality of terminating a pregnancy following a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. As the discussion spread across social media platforms,…
Cardinal Camillo Ruini is dead at 95. A giant of the Church in Italy at the end of the twentieth century and the start of the twenty-first, Ruini was, perhaps, the last truly great Italian…
(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 06.17.2026).- On the morning of Wednesday, June 17, moments before the general audience, Pope Leo XIV received in audience, in the room adjacent to the Paul VI Hall, several members…
Genya Savilov/AFP Smoke and fire rises from the Dormition Cathedral in the Orthodox complex of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra following a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on June 15, 2026, amid the…
Pope Leo XIV speaks at Palacio de las Cortes in Madrid, Spain, on June 8, 2026, becoming the first Pope in history to address the Spanish Parliament. From Westminster Hall to the U.N., popes have…
Pope Leo XIV feeds fish during the Sept. 5, 2025, inauguration of Borgo Laudato Si’, an ecological village on the papal estate of Castel Gandolfo, 18 miles south of Rome. In a video message to…
Javier RomeroPope Leo XIV talks to reporters outside the papal villa of Castel Gandolfo on May 5, 2026, before returning to Rome after a daylong stay there. In a message to an Italian newspaper, the…
‘No one manifests human personhood and humanity better than Our Lady,’ explains professor Mark Miravalle. Mark Miravalle discusses the Marian dimension of Pope Leo’s encyclical on Catholic social teaching and artificial intelligence.
Archbishop Josef Karel Matocha of Olomouc, Czech Republic, is pictured in an undated portrait. More than six decades after Archbishop Josef Karel Matocha died under communist internment, a Czech court has formally recognized his imprisonment…
Thousands gathered in Rome on June 13 to march against Italian legislation permitting abortion and to defend those with disabilities and the vulnerable in Italy who could be affected by future legislation on euthanasia and…