Although a sequel to The Da Vinci Code (2006) and also directed by Ron Howard and written in part by Dan Brown, Angels & Demons (2009)...

Speaking on his first “social” encyclical, Pope Leo said the Roman Catholic Church, whose membership stood at 1.6 billion embodied souls aro...

Sometimes it pays to go behind a piece of writing to conduct a genealogy of the writer himself or herself, rather than to dive into the writ...

The Terra dei Fuochi, or “land of fires,” is a region in southern Italy where “decades of illegal dumping, burying and burning of waste” had...

In the Gospels, Jesus is portrayed as an idealist, even other-worldly, from the standpoint of the political domain. To be sure, he knows how...

Whereas an ethical critique of war appeals to an ethical principle, typically that is against humans being harmed, especially the innocent, ...

That severe, systematic inflictions of suffering on whole peoples were going on in the world even on Christmas Day in 2025 did not require a...

Poised as the “new Leonine era,” worded as if gilding the proverbial lily as if a golden ring, the installation of Pope Leo XIV reinvigorate...

In the film, The Godfather, Part III (1990),   Cardinal Lamberto laments that Christianity, like water surrounding a stone that is in a wat...

Marie Martin (1873-1897), known to the world as the Carmelite nun, Thérèse of Lisieux as well as Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Fac...

On a trip to Indonesia in early September, 2024, Pope Francis signed a declaration on religious harmony and environmental protection at ...

Political ideology and religious doctrine are distinct, yet confusion can justifiably exist because ideology can seep into doctrine or be c...

People in glass houses should not throw stones. Or, the person who is without sin casts the first stone. Lastly, a house divided cannot sta...

The utility from beautiful music for many does not justify the physical and sexual abuse of a relative few. Even though utilitarianism goes...