TBILISI, Georgia — Georgia’s Patriarch Ilia II, the longtime head of the Georgian Orthodox Church and one of the country’s most influential figures, has died. He was 93. Ilia II died late Tuesday after being…
BATON ROUGE, La. — An Arkansas law requiring that the Ten Commandments be prominently displayed in public school classrooms was struck down by a federal judge Monday. The law is among those pushed by Republicans,…
The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage has opened registration for the 2026 pilgrimage and announced the schedule for its public events. In celebration of the 2026 theme, “One Nation Under God,” and the nation’s 250th anniversary, many…
Jeffrey Bruno The FDNY Color guard. Each year they march in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade carrying 343 flags, each in memory of a firefighter lost on 9/11. Amid the shamrocks and celebration of New…
Archbishop Josef Grünwidl of Vienna has called for a Church in which “renewal and change” are possible, telling Austria’s bishops that what comes from the Holy Spirit cannot be stopped by canon law. Grünwidl delivered…
(ZENIT News / Rome, 03.17.2026).- From the window of the Apostolic Palace, during the Angelus of the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Pope Leo XIV raised a voice that echoed far beyond St. Peter’s Square: a…
Tessa GervasiniThe Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission meets in Washington, D.C., on Monday, June 16, 2025. The Religious Liberty Commission’s hearing on health care and social services highlighted legal issues faced by Catholic health care…
Louisa Gouliamaki Internationally renowned German philosopher Juergen Habermas speaks to journalists in an auditorium of the Philosophical School of Athens on Aug. 6, 2013. He died at the age of 96 in Germany on March…
Fragments of an Iranian missile on a rooftop adjacent to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on March 16, 2026. The Government of Israel condemned the Iranian regime for ‘firing missiles at the…
St. Patrick. Bishop Stephen Parkes of Savannah, Georgia, reminds us of the many reasons to celebrate the great saint’s life.