"It is time to act in order to extinguish the destructive fires raging in the Holy Land.... Only a just peace will put end to hatred, to oppression and the suffering of so many."

In a recent symposium sponsored by the American and British embassies to the Holy See, women religious were recognized for being "on the front lines" in combatting the pandemic with faith, generosity, and compassion.

In Germany, more than 1,550 people have tested positive for coronavirus at the Toennies slaughterhouse in Rheda-Wiedenbrueck and thousands more workers and family members have been put under a quarantine to try to halt the outbreak.

Nearly 6 in 10 Black Americans think the criminal justice system needs a complete overhaul, compared with about a quarter of white Americans who said the same.

Massimo Faggioli: Some statues deserve toppling. But it’s not necessarily the most constructive way to build a different future.

“There’s a common denominator in the United States and Latin America: Human rights violations associated with police abuse many times go unpunished.”

The Catholic Church and the U.S. law-enforcement are both powerful institutions with fiercely loyal agents who have covered up misdeeds.

Born in Togo in 1967, Sister Marie Stella Kouak attended nursing school in Belgium and returned in 1998 to work at a pediatric hospital in Dapaong run by her congregation, now known as the Sister Hospitallers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

The paid advertisement that appeared in Sunday's editions of The Tennessean from the group Future For America claims Donald Trump “is the final president of the USA” and features a photo of Trump and Pope Francis.

The statue of St. Junipero Serra is the latest to be either defaced or forcibly removed by people protesting against monuments that depict the country's colonial and racist past.

During his last morning in Regensburg, the 93-year-old retired pope visited his brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, one last time.

In 2018, after what it called an accumulation of “episodes of violence and animosity with racial and xenophobic overtones,” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a pastoral letter condemning racism and vowing to combat it.

“The coronavirus crisis has highlighted the need to ensure the necessary protection for refugees.”

Bryce Dallas Howard makes her directorial debut with the new documentary "Dads," available from Apple TV+.

“You have been one of the pillars of the whole country,” the pope said in his first public audience since lockdown.

Help us, God of mercy, to realize how much more threatening the pandemic is for a forcibly displaced person.

The director Bruno Dumont has said that movies can “look beyond the visible to explore something that reason can’t.”

Tenants across the country may face eviction in August as courts reopen and protections created to respond to Covid-19 crisis are lifted.

The short answer is: it is unlikely.

Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a member of the Pontifical Commision for the Protection of Minors, has said that vulnerable minors must be protected against online predators during the pandemic.