Year: 2025

In an effort to blunt criticism of the poor air quality in Beijing prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics, the Chinese government implemented ambitious measures to curb air pollution. The result …

As Ukraine experienced a deadly weekend with a barrage of attacks from Russia on Kryvyi Rih and Kyiv, the capital, the papal almoner handed a gift from Pope Francis — four …

As the Trump administration moved to formally dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development, Catholic Relief Services, the overseas charitable arm of the Catholic Church in the U.S., has advocated for U.S. foreign aid …

ASSISI, Italy (CNS) — For centuries, pilgrims came to Assisi to walk in the footsteps of a saint who preached to birds, embraced poverty and wandered the hills barefoot.  But …

The budgetary problems at the bishops’ conference are real. No one expected the new administration’s policy changes to be so draconian or so immediate. Still, the bishops didn’t put up …

Aging membership and an increasingly secular society are causing challenges for Pax Christi, the 80-year-old international Catholic peace movement that defends human rights and focuses on ending wars across the …

Reading 1 Daniel 3:14-20, 91-92, 95 King Nebuchadnezzar said:“Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,that you will not serve my god,or worship the golden statue that I set up?Be ready …

Brian Burch, President Trump’s nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, told senators on April 8 that he agreed with the administration’s broad cuts to foreign aid.