2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (158+ words) I am Roman Catholic. The church’s teachings have answers for a beautiful but troubled world; the message of hope, and a road map for life’s journey. But Pope Leo XIV comments that a culture that “rearms minds, words, nations” was…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (397+ words) Eight years after 11 worshippers were killed in the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history, Tree of Life in Squirrel Hill will change its name. In a video narrated by actor Tom Hanks — who served on an honorary cabinet for the…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (327+ words) GENAZZANO, Italy — Pope Leo XIV returned Monday to a sanctuary where he prayed just after his election and revealed a permanent sign of his devotion to the place: a fresco depicting him praying that now adorns an upper cornice of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1062+ words) For Kentucky author Wendell Berry, the environmental crisis he lamented to such great effect in his essays, poetry and fiction was also a human crisis — a deeply spiritual one. Berry, who died Monday at home at age 92, drew that connection…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (703+ words) DALLAS —Texas high schoolers could be required to learn a version of history that links Islam to violence and portrays Christianity as central to America’s founding. This week, the State Board of Education is expected to finish overhauling social studies…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1070+ words) JERUSALEM — The enormous doors were pushed shut, the clanking bolts secured from the outside and several clergy, pilgrims and one journalist — me — were locked for the night inside one of Christianity’s holiest sites in Jerusalem. The Church of the Holy…...