Eight-year-old Yamen Abu Hilal lies on a bed as a woman sits beside him in a hospital room in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Nov. 24, 2025. His condition has sharply worsened amid the collapse…
TEL AVIV, Israel — The spread of famine has been averted in the Gaza Strip, but the situation remains critical with the entire Palestinian territory still facing starvation, the world’s leading authority on food crises…
Pope Leo XIV passes through the Holy Door carrying the jubilee cross as he leads the pilgrimage of the Holy See on June 9, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 18, 2025 /…
ROME — Pope Leo XIV on Thursday made his most important U.S. appointment to date, naming a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop of New York to lead one of the biggest U.S. archdioceses as…
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York is set to become the latest state to legalize medically assisted suicide for the terminally ill under a deal reached between the governor and state legislative leaders announced Wednesday. Democratic…
Sean PavoneThe Virginia State Capitol in Richmond COMMENTARY: As Virginia’s new political landscape takes shape, Catholic leaders warn that physician-assisted suicide and weakened conscience rights could soon return to the legislative agenda.
PHOENIX — Turning Point USA, the conservative youth organization that Charlie Kirk turned into a political juggernaut, will convene its flagship conference on Thursday for the first time since the assassination of its charismatic founder,…
Simone RisolutiPope Leo XIV presides over Mass for the Jubilee of Prisoners on Dec. 14, 2025. EDITORIAL: Just how desperately we need hope in today’s troubled world was made apparent though the darkness of the…
Gareth CattermoleSchoolchildren attend a ceremonial welcome and tree planting at Aras an Uachtarain, the official residence of the president of Ireland, during a state visit by His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco and…
Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNAGerman Bishops at Mass in the Papal Basilica of St. Paul outside the Walls during their visit in Rome, Nov. 17, 2022. COMMENTARY: This abandonment of theological sanity and pastoral responsibility coincides with…