July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever since.
War and Peace
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
A Palestinian Christian community is the latest target of settler violence in the West Bank
On July 7, settlers carried out a daytime arson attack on the Church of St. George and a Byzantine Christian cemetery. The fifth-century church is “one of the oldest and most venerated places of worship for Christians in Palestine.”
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Leo: Vatican still ready to host peace talks between Russia and Ukraine
Pope Leo XIV met with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy today and reaffirmed the Vatican’s willingness to host peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
Posted inFeatures
Pedro Arrupe, Hiroshima and the Sacred Heart
Father Arrupe’s intense desire for union with the heart of Christ gave him strength as he ministered to victims of the Hiroshima attack.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
After U.S. bombings on Iran, Pope Leo calls for diplomacy over destruction
On Inside the Vatican, we explore Pope Leo’s persistent calls for peace and his unexpected support for journalist Paola Ugaz, who exposed abuse in a powerful Peruvian lay group suppressed by Pope Francis.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
On hearing Trump invoke God after bombing Iran on the feast of Corpus Christi
How should American Catholics respond to the U.S. attacks on Iran? Perhaps the Feast of Corpus Christi offers a counterpoint to the god of war, power and vengeance invoked by so many today.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Leo XIV: Western Christians must reject ‘fake news’ and help the suffering Eastern churches
Pope Leo XIV denounced the “violent conflict [that] seems to be raging in the Christian East with a diabolical intensity previously unknown” and said the Christians of the West must do more to help the Christians of the East, especially those suffering in Ukraine, Gaza and other places in the Middle East.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
He was killed in the DRC for standing up to corruption. Now this young martyr is on the path to sainthood.
The example of Blessed Floribert Bwana Chui shows us how to live for Christ: by dedicating ourselves to prayer, the poor and peace.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Leo calls for Middle East peace after ‘heinous terrorist attack’ on church in Syria
Aware of the deep concern this new act of violence has caused among Christians in this part of the world, Pope Leo offered these words of assurance: “I say to the Christians of the Middle East: I am close to you! The whole church is close to you!”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Leo calls for stop to the Israel-Iran war after U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
“Let diplomacy silence the guns!” Pope Leo XIV told the crowd in St. Peter’s Square a few hours after the United States entered the Iran-Israel war by bombing three of Iran’s nuclear sites.