The October 2024 assembly marked the most female-inclusive synod in Church history. Around 50 women took part—and voted—in the second session of the Synod on Synodality. The right to vote at ...

Czech theologian and sociologist of religion Tomas Halik says the Catholic Church must “wake from its nap” and embrace a more mature form of Christianity. In an interview with La Croix, Halik ...

Francis II? Benedict XVII? John Paul III? One of the most symbolic acts at the start of a new papacy is the choice of a pope’s name. Once elected by the College of Cardinals, the new bishop of ...

"Saint Theresa of Avila" (after 1669) by Luca Giordano (Naples 1634-Naples 1705) — Santa Teresa a Chiaia Church in Naples. (Photo by Carlo Raso / PDM 1.0) Before we return to the surprising link ...

The boat "Le Bel Espoir" welcomes eight groups of 25 young people on board to sail across the Mediterranean. (Photo courtesy by Diocese of Malta) “Peace.” That was the word Pope Leo XIV ...

What is an incorrupt body, and how common is the phenomenon? An incorruptible or incorrupted body is one that has been unusually well-preserved after death, retaining the appearance of being alive.

A powerful image: On May 11, after reciting the Regina Caeli prayer, Pope Leo XIV reopened the papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace, which had been sealed since the death of Pope Francis on ...

File photo of refugees queueing for water in the Jamam camp, South Sudan. (Photo by DFID - UK Department for International Development / CC BY-SA 2.0) This is a war of superlatives. Doctors ...

Pope Leo XIV appears to have taken to heart a plea from one of his closest neighbors during the conclave—Cardinal Louis Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq. Seated beside him ...

The disciples stand with their eyes raised to the sky, watching the one who taught them how to truly love disappear from view. It’s the moment of the Ascension. From the outside, it might just ...

Italian dioceses reported 69 cases of abuse involving minors or vulnerable adults in 2023 and 2024, most occurring in parish settings, according to a report released Wednesday, May 28, by the ...

La Croix: You followed the election of Pope Leo XIV from Villanova University, near Philadelphia, where you teach—and where the pope had studied mathematics and philosophy in the 1970s.