Despite deep political fractures surrounding the issue, the British Parliament passed a bill which would halt most prosecutions for killings by militant groups and British soldiers during the Troubles.

In an email, the East Texas bishop told RNS that he ‘cannot voluntarily abandon the flock that I have been given charge of as a successor of the apostles.’

The sale of 272 enslaved persons by the Jesuits in 1838 helped provide financing for the struggling Georgetown University.

The grisly killing of a seminarian highlights the violent persecution Christians have faced in Nigeria and around the world.

Mykhaylo Podolyak, a top adviser to President Zelenskyy, said that “it doesn’t make sense to speak of Pope Francis as a mediator, if he takes on a Russophile position that is obvious to all.”

The Ulma beatification poses several new theological concepts about the Catholic Church’s ideas of saints and martyrs that have implications for the anti-abortion movement because of the baby in the mother’s womb.