ROME – In February 2014, a scene unfolded in Rome that struck many observers as akin to the end of…
Author: John L. Allen Jr.
ROME – By the time he marked a decade at the pinnacle of power, it was clear that under this…
it’s being said that Secretary of State, Cardinal Parolin, and the Vatican’s foreign minister, Archbishop Gallagher, feel uncomfortable with the…
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the new head of the Italian bishops conference, smiles during a press conference in Rome, Friday, May…
A plastic skull is displayed at a check point on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. (Credit:…
(photo caption: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople signed a decree on January 5, 2019, granting autocephaly, or independence, to the…
Two Christian women flee after a 2012 bombing of a Nigerian church by Boko Haram. (Credit: AP.) In…
Egyptian Christian Ezzat Yaacoub Ishak, who fled el-Arish in northern Sinai two days ago due to fighting, sits in his…
An anti-Pope Francis poster in central Rome, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017. On Saturday, posters appeared around Rome featuring a stern-looking…
When Pope Francis holds a consistory for the creation of new cardinals next month, one star of the show will…
Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI delivers an address in Regensburg, Germany, in 2006, which caused a firestorm of protest across the…
On the Catholic liturgical calendar, Aug. 6 is the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, recalling a Biblical scene…