The late Pope Francis was the least favorite pope of American conservatives. In 2020, when Francis published an encyclical a month before the U.S. election, he seemed to be playing to his part as “the ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel takes her seat in the visitors' gallery of the German Bundestag for the election of the Chancellor. The election and swearing-in of the German Chancellor and the ...

Pope Leo XIV recently assumed the role of the leader of the Catholic Church, and I find myself curious to know what the topic of his first papal encyclical -- a letter to the bishops concerning ...

Earlier this summer, the Vatican published the papal encyclical Laudato Si’, promoting sustainable development and environmentalism, and Pope Francis subsequently declared his intention to deliver an ...