Dear friends, we received life before we ever desired it. As Pope Francis said: “All of us are sons and daughters, but none of us chose to be born” (Angelus, Jan. 1, 2025). Not only that.

Dear friends, we received life before we ever desired it. As Pope Francis said: “all of us are sons and daughters, but none of us chose to be born” (Angelus, 1 January 2025). Not only that.

Pope Francis promised to return the artifacts to communities in Canada as part of what he called a “penitential pilgrimage” for abuses against Indigenous people by the Church. But several ...

Heidi Schlumpf, Daniel P. Horan, and David Dault gather for a special episode of "The Francis Effect" podcast to look at the first weeks of the papacy of Pope Leo XIV. How do I listen? Click the ...

When the newly elected pontiff stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to address the Catholic faithful on May 8, his first decision as pope ... December 2023, Francis urged global ...

I am deeply thankful to Pope Leo XIV for coming out of the gate with honest, blunt talk about the most troubling questions the human race now faces. Speaking May 16 to diplomats assigned to the ...

Mr. Walther is the editor of The Lamp, a Catholic literary journal, and a contributing Opinion writer. To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the ...