The election of left-wing Catherine Connolly last week as Ireland’s 10th president was marked by low voter turnout, a narrow field of candidates, and an unprecedented number of 213,738 spoiled ballots ...

Bishop José Ignacio Munilla of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain, described socialism as an ideology that is an “enemy of the cross” at the Conference on Catholics and Public Life organized by the Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV said Sunday that he discussed both the Gaza war and the conflict in Ukraine directly with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying that the two leaders found common ground on key ...

Spain’s bishops are speaking out after the host of a new year’s countdown on Spanish public television showed during the broadcast a picture with the face of the mascot of a well-known program in ...

A top Vatican diplomat has raised the possibility of a papal visit to Sri Lanka as the two nations marked 50 years of diplomatic relations this month, a milestone reached as the island nation emerges ...

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Wednesday directing federal agencies to expand educational freedom and opportunity for families and end “radical indoctrination” in K–12 education ...

The Vatican is collaborating with tech leaders and companies, governmental institutions, scholars, and nongovernmental organizations to fight “a war on two frontiers” — the sexual abuse and ...

The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., on Wednesday voted to approve a resolution opposing the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and called on Christian ...

President Donald Trump frustrated pro-life activists Tuesday afternoon with an executive order that directs the United States Domestic Policy Council to examine ways to lower costs for in vitro ...

On Pope Francis’ first full day of public appearances in Indonesia on Wednesday, the pope called upon the political leaders of the world’s largest Muslim country to protect the country’s delicate ...

A leading Christian human rights organization has rejected accusations of extremism in a controversial report by a European abortion advocacy group. The European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and ...

The “No to Trafficking” Team of the Argentine bishops’ National Commission for Justice and Peace has issued a statement hailing the country’s Supreme Court ruling in a case involving surrogate ...