The Internet is a modern invention, yet the aspiration to create some all-knowing, omniscient mechanical device with an answer to everything—a hubristic, artificial version of God—has a much longer history …

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built on the site of Christ’s Resurrection, remains closed, three weeks after the outbreak of the Iran war. “All holy sites in the Old …

I teach a Confirmation class of about 65 kids—eighth graders from the public school in a middle-class town in Connecticut. These kids are not from particularly devout families, and many …

Vatican News, the news agency of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, reported that “radical Jewish settlers have increased violent attacks on Palestinian civilians and villages in the West Bank.” The …

The prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches said that “I have the impression that most of the world does not realize the catastrophe that is striking our civilization.” …

The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network published new general regulations to guide “the identity, mission, and organization of this pontifical work globally.” “The new document establishes clear criteria regarding the nature …

Pope Leo XIV issued a message marking the tenth anniversary of Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love), Pope Francis’s post-synodal apostolic exhortation on love in the family. “On 19 March …

The chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Religious Liberty decried anti-Semitism. “Catholics are called to reject antisemitism and the lies and conspiracies that fuel it, and to stand clearly …