His public appearances have become rarer as he is set to celebrate his 90th birthday this year. The supreme authority of Tibetan Buddhism, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, fled Tibet in 1959 in ...

Vatican Diary: A CIA document recently declassified by U.S. President Donald Trump mentions meetings between two popes and a former director of the agency. Were John XXIII and Paul VI spies?

On May 7, the conclave to elect the 267th pope will begin. 133 cardinals under the age of 80 are to take part. They’ll be completely cut off from the outside world until the new pope is elected ...

Twelve years—2013 to 2025—on the throne of Peter is a significant stretch, though still short when compared to the 26-year reign of St. John Paul II or the 20 years of Pope Pius XII.

A recently published research paper stated that in August last year, 39 percent of the U.S. population aged 18-64 used generative AI. More than 24 percent of workers used it at least once in the ...

He welcomes you into his office, a rare gesture. In the Vatican, custom is clear: visitors are not to be received where a cardinal works. Grech decided long ago to set that rule aside. At the ...

At the edge of the Polish border, the 12th-century Kalozha Belarusian Orthodox Church in Grodno overlooks the calm waters of the Neman River. This is where Father Georgij Roi ministered for ten ...

The Armenian people suffered horrific massacres in the 19th century under the Ottoman Empire — including the Hamidian massacres, which left 200,000 dead — followed by the Armenian Genocide of ...

“Please move forward… Would you like a plastic bag? … That’ll be 3,000 yen… How will you be paying? … Cash is fine… Here’s your receipt… Thank you, come again.” Hiroto, a ...

Czech theologian and sociologist of religion Tomas Halik says the Catholic Church must “wake from its nap” and embrace a more mature form of Christianity. In an interview with La Croix, Halik ...

Pilgrims gather in 2006 for an International Youth Festival outside the Church of St. James in Medjugorje. (Photo: Piotr Frydecki/Wikimedia Commons) Every Marian apparition places the Catholic ...

La Croix: You followed the election of Pope Leo XIV from Villanova University, near Philadelphia, where you teach—and where the pope had studied mathematics and philosophy in the 1970s.