Religion News Service

Pope Francis is not cheering on either side in the Russia-Ukraine war, which is an essential quality needed in a mediator.

The American people want our politicians to act like adults rather than children. The time for political theater is over.

Three Italian environmental activists will face their second trial hearing at the Vatican on Wednesday (May 24) for having glued themselves to the famous statue "Laocoön and His Sons" in the Vatican Museums last summer.

Christian nationalism has "infiltrated" the Latino Christian community "in such a powerful way," said one clergyman, "that they are not even aware of the position they are supporting."

She is the first African woman to receive the prize, which is valued at 1.1 million British pounds (over $1.3 million).

Progressive Catholics need to confess, we are jealous. We wish we were as successful as EWTN.

Congress' budgetary process is broken, unable to enact a reasonable and flexible fiscal policy. Maybe Congress can learn something from how the church elects popes, though: Lock them in until the stalemate ends.

The Pacific Island nation spans a 30,000-island chain comprising three ethnogeographic groupings: Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. As welcoming as these islands sound, over the last 30 years, global warming has been causing trouble in paradise. 

What Jesus' resurrection did to the disciples shows us what impact it should have on us.

In 2013, then-Catholic priest and would-be artist Kevin Barry McGoldrick was transferred from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to the Diocese of Nashville, where he became chaplain of Aquinas College.

It’s been more than half a century since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail" on scraps of paper, but faith leaders say his response to white clergy critics endures as a "road map" for those working on justice and equal rights.

For Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese, Earth Day 2023 will be a day of fear and hope. Hope because humanity is moving in the right direction; fear that we will not make it in time.

Many conservative Catholics are upset with Pope Francis, who they complain is changing church doctrine, but they hardly blinked when Pope Benedict got rid of Limbo, a Catholic doctrine that had been taught for centuries.

Gracie Morbitzer paints her saints with dreadlocks, tattoos, headphones and cigarettes, and commissions of her saints are in churches and schools all over the world.

We see everywhere news of children murdered in their classrooms, soldiers suffering in their homelands, people displaced by famine and politics, and a dying planet. Where is the Easter promise in all this?

Holy Week is the daily life of millions of people around the world who suffer because their consciences tell them to live and work in ways that political and religious authorities find objectionable.

Georgia's clean energy transition is doing what some may deem a miracle — getting Republicans and Democrats to agree.

After I sent a lawyer an analysis on how advances in artificial intelligence could revolutionize the legal profession, he got even by asking ChatGPT to write "a column on AI, written in the style of Thomas Reese, SJ."

These books changed my life. They can change yours, too — though I hope the fact that they are being recommended by the second-worst Jesuit in the U.S. does not mean that they will now be banned from seminary libraries.

Some bishops and lay groups have become the de facto Catholic morality police. Is this evangelization?