Vatican

Upon hearing the news of Pope Benedict XVI’s death on Saturday morning, I immediately thought of a long road trip I took with my wife 10 years ago, from Alaska to Texas, and a lonely stretch of highway in central Wyoming where, trapped in a car with nothing else to do, I listened to hours and hours of interviews conducted in the ’90s with then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the man destined to become Pope Benedict XVI.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has passed at the age of 95.

Over a thousand faith leaders in the United States sign a petition urging a Christmas ceasefire in Ukraine and calling on the government to take a leadership role in ending the war.

Pope Francis on Monday said he sees “still greater omens of greater destruction and desolation” in the world and called on people “to put aside selfishness, indifference and antagonism.”

A high Vatican official stunned Catholics on Italian television Aug. 26.

When I heard about the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, I sighed.

Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin believes his daughter, Daria, was the target of the car-bomb attack that took her life last week, he has told...

Freedom of speech, assembly and the press are gone in Hong Kong, and there’s good reason to fear religious liberty will be the next target.

Pope Francis reiterated his opposition to abortion Saturday, likening the medical procedure to "hiring a hit man."

A couple of days have passed since the landmark U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and the Vatican, to put it politely, has refrained from strongly supporting a decision which will certainly lower the number of abortions in the United States.