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An Israeli strike Thursday hit the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip, killing three people, injuring 10 and causing extensive damage to... Read More

Amid the ongoing turmoil in the Holy Land, Pope Leo XIV and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone on Friday. The Holy Father renewed... Read More

Pope Leo XIV and the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem have strongly condemned the shelling Thursday of the Church of the Holy Family in... Read More

Recent violence in Syria’s southern province of Sweida has killed hundreds of people, shaken the country’s fragile new leadership... Read More

In his first week as head of President Donald Trump’s U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Scott Kupor issued new guidance to... Read More

There is a sickness inside our hearts. It aches for something brighter, better, a more resplendent mode of being. God, perhaps. Or temporary... Read More

Is social media evil?  It is a nice question. Those of us Catholics who take seriously the call to become missionary disciples need to... Read More

The June 29 solemnity of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul coincided with a symbolic moment in the relationship between the papacy and the... Read More

In a 2008 address in Washington, D.C., Pope Benedict told the U.S. bishops that “the ability to cultivate vocations to the priesthood... Read More

The Bible has a lot to say about gender.Of course, there are innumerable instances when the Bible has historically been used to enforce the... Read More

In my last post, I covered the foundational biblical principles for thinking about AI. Today, I want to make a more practical point:... Read More

The last thing many want to hear when in a house of worship for religious services is a political sermon. It’s infuriating being... Read More

Did the founders of America intend for God to be banished from the public arena?  The idea occurs so regularly in modern times that we... Read More

Alasdair MacIntyre concludes his groundbreaking, 1981 book After Virtue by playing on the title of Samuel Beckett’s 1953... Read More

Brydon Eastman was wrestling with an ethical quandary. As an applied mathematician at OpenAI, he debated what to do: Keep quiet and protect... Read More

Aurora Pomales still remembers the feelings after her grandmother died. The grief was real and disorienting. After all, it was her... Read More

Pop culture is full of examples of dads who, let’s just say, could use a bit of help in the fatherhood department. While it’s... Read More

In Bob Dylan’s song “Only a Pawn in Their Game,” from his 1964 album, The Times They Are A-Changin’, Dylan... Read More

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