VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has called on all nations to eliminate the death penalty, to divert a fixed percentage of arms spending to a global fund to fight hunger and climate change, and to cancel ...

A new movie from Netflix about the Blessed Virgin Mary has received mixed reviews, with some Catholics on social media criticizing the film’s depiction of Mary and the kind of relationship she had ...

Growing up on a small farm, vacations were rare for Liz Gilbert. But one summer her parents enlisted a neighbor to tend to their goats and chickens so the Gilberts could retreat to the beach for a ...

It was a brief encounter with Pope John Paul II in 1999 that taught Andrea Picciotti-Bayer a lesson in Christian humility that continues to guide the Stanford-educated lawyer and EWTN legal analyst.

VATICAN CITY — Reducing the message of Our Lady of Guadalupe to anything other than an expression of Mary’s universal motherhood diminishes the true essence of the iconic Marian devotion, Pope Francis ...

The notes ring out, sweet and clear as we light the second of two candles on our dining table Advent wreath. For Christians whose rhythms are matched to the liturgical calendar, it is a new year, ...

Catholic members of Congress and staff gathered inside the U.S. Capitol Dec. 12 for a rare event — the celebration of a Mass in honor of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Archbishop Timothy Broglio, ...

For those whose memories may not go back that far, HAL (Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer) was the murderous artificial intelligence machine in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space ...