A senior adviser to the Knights of Columbus discussed the need for men to have fraternal community at the Second Symposium on Young American Men held in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 25. “We’re social beings,…
Erick DoxeyA statue of Our Lady remains untouched in front of a burned-out home in the Balboa neighborhood of Spokane, Washington, on Aug. 2, 2026. COMMENTARY: Faith does not require pretending that loss is small.…
PARIS — Pope Leo XIV told his congregation at an open-air Mass in Paris on Saturday that “none of us is merely a number or an entry in a register but a unique and irreplaceable…
Simone RisolutiPope Leo XIV waves to the crowd — estimated at more than 800,000 — at his open-air Mass on Sept. 26, 2026, in Paris. An estimated 800,000 people attended the Pontiff’s open-air Mass.
LOURDES, France — The exceptional fervor that marked the pope’s visit to Paris — the first stage of his Sept. 25–28 apostolic journey to France — should show no sign of waning in Lourdes, where…
Pope Leo XIV waves as he boards the plane ITA Airways A321, as he departed Rome to begin his apostolic journey to France on Sept. 25, 2026. The pontiff is expected to proclaim Catholic social…
PARIS, France — Pope Leo XIV warned Friday that a “paradise of machines” risked undermining humanity as he opened a trip to France by posing fundamental questions about what it means to be human in…
Daniel IbáñezPope Leo XIV with French President Emmanuel Macron, at the Élysée Palace in Paris on Sept. 25, 2026. The pontiff denounced the use of science and technology for profit instead of moral and ethical…
The recent euthanasia of a nearly two-year-old child in the Netherlands shows that the idea of mercy is “often used nowadays to justify ethically questionable actions,” a top-ranking Dutch cardinal has said. Speaking to Crux Now, Cardinal…
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Leo XIV told journalists they were welcome to report on him, as he responded to the Trump administration’s attempt to bar U.S. media from the White House and affirmed…