Pope Leo XIV faces crisis as a traditionalist group plans bishop consecrations without consent

My father carried his Holocaust story his entire life. He never asked us to carry it, too.

(RNS) — It was only as an adult living with my own family that I learned about my father’s youth.

'Not a day off': For Juneteenth, some faith leaders promote political causes

(RNS) — ‘As we acknowledge the contributions of the African American community to America, it’s appropriate for us to lead the way in unifying and making a call for unity,’ said evangelist Alveda King, niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

'They have already suffered enough': Central African clergy respond to US deportation

(RNS) — Faith leaders say they would welcome migrants deported from the United States but question the decision to send vulnerable people without ties to a nation still healing from years of sectarian violence.

Cardinal Camillo Ruini, Catholic power broker in Italy’s culture wars, dies at 95

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A close ally of St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, Ruini led the Italian bishops through some of the country’s fiercest battles over secularism, bioethics and the church’s role in public life.

A deeper look at Pope Leo's encyclical: Catholic social teaching's purpose in AI age

(RNS) — The Catholic Church wants everyone to participate in a conversation about the direction of digital technology and artificial intelligence, the pope explains in introducing his first encyclical.