It has come as a surprise to many in the Holy See that the Vatican bank fired a newlywed couple, with three young children between them, after a new internal bank regulation went into effect barring workplace marriages.

A Homily for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, by Father Terrance Klein

“The church is not against deportations per se, but there are several conditions that need to be in place.”

The White House on Jan. 28 suggested it would seek to strip federal funds from nongovernmental organizations including Catholic Charities as part of its effort to enforce its immigration policies.

Michael Longley, the Irish poet whose long career included more than 40 books, died last week. He was lauded by literary, social and political figures alike for his many contributions to Irish literature and to the cause of social reconciliation.

What might Aquinas himself have thought about all the attention to his traveling skull—that fragile and now empty case for the brain behind one of the most productive minds of European philosophy?

As the United States and China vie for primacy in the field of artificial intelligence, the Vatican today issued a wide-ranging reflection on “the relationship between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence.”

Jesus calls us to care for those in need—regardless of national boundaries.

In a decree signed on Jan. 27, Pope Francis formally recognized the five Franciscan missionaries as having been killed for their faith, clearing the way for their beatification.

On the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Pope Francis urged the world not to forget the horrors of the Holocaust.