By July 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development — established in 1961, and which in 2024 provided $187 million in humanitarian funding to Ghana — effectively ceased to exist, with 85% of ...

In his Feb. 19 address to participants of the religious congregation's General Chapter, the pope said that authority in religious life should serve as a means of "animating common life" centered on ...

The Vatican released Leo's agenda for day trips to a half-dozen Italian cities over the next six months. The Vatican has rarely released such plans together and so far in advance, but word of the ...

"In our time, people are positively eager to claim the mantle of prophecy," writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters. "They think it absolves them from the need for careful moral argumentation." ...

The Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit on the island of Flores cofounded a shelter to provide women with refuge, counseling and legal support in a patriarchal society.

Behind gestures toward accountability lies a quieter crisis that New York Archbishop Hicks just inherited: uncertainty about long-term solvency, uneven communication with clergy, and increasing ...

Columnist Daniel P. Horan shares the two songs that have accompanied him through the Winter Games: John Williams' "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" and singer-songwriter Jason Mraz's "Beautiful Mess." ...

Pope Leo XIV condemned the "scourge of gambling" in a speech late last year. His words followed warnings in the United States, where Catholic leaders have spoken out about the dangers of online ...

During his first Ash Wednesday as pope, Leo framed Lent as a communal reckoning with personal and structural sin.