The rabbi accused Pope Francis of fueling anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish sentiments by focusing on the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza and not acknowledging the multiple threats to Israel’s existence.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While many people around the world seek a blessing for their animals around the Oct. 4 feast of St. Francis of Assisi, in Italy the traditional …

Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to articles about plastic production, Bishop John Stowe’s blessing of women acolytes and Cardinal Robert W. McElroy’s appointment as Archbishop of Washington. 

The thing NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters most admired about President Joe Biden’s Catholicism these past four years was not his embrace of Catholic social ethics. It was his observance …

View from the Vatican: Hope is less autobiography than it is an aggregation of existing stories, interviews, speeches and history that are already known about the now-88-year-old pontiff. 

While scandals can shake us, the vast majority of our priests and parishioners strive to live the compassion of Jesus, writes Fr. Dave Mercer. Though this rarely makes the news, …

Amid what a Catholic charity called “unimaginable” suffering of civilians trapped in civil war brutality in Sudan, the United States declared that one of the fighting factions is committing genocide in the country …

To ensure artificial intelligence is developed and used in an ethical, transparent and responsible manner in Vatican City State, the city-state governor’s office has released a set of guidelines on AI, which …

President Joe Biden used his farewell address to the nation on Jan. 15 to warn against the concentration of power not only in government but also in other elements of society, such as …

In a statement released Jan. 16 by the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land said they hoped the ceasefire “will mark an important end to the violence …