Pope Leo XIV has declared capital punishment "inadmissible.” He has penned a social media post for the World Day Against the Death Penalty, as his native United States announced plans to livestream an...

Yet another thinker puts his faith in the service of monstrous deportation policies

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Hours after the U.S. bishops’ president called the Pentagon’s livestreamed firing squad barbaric, JD Vance said only that he wouldn’t watch. Pope Leo XIV saw this coming.

Without explicitly referring to the scheduled execution of the Fort Hood killer, the Pope reiterates the Church’s opposition to the death penalty. In the US, Vice-President Vance says he will not watch the execution by firing squad, which is due to be live-streamed in December

The pope’s message came two days after the Pentagon set a Dec. 3 firing squad for Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. Cardinal Parolin called the plan “incomprehensible,” and Americans agree.

Pope Leo XIV reaffirms the Catholic Church’s rejection of the death penalty, recalling that the common good can be “safeguarded and the requirements ...

The pontiff's tweet followed comments by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, criticizing the public firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan.

Pope Leo Speaks Out Against Death Penalty After Hegseth Plans To Livestream Execution

Without explicitly referring to the scheduled execution of the Fort Hood killer, the Pope reiterates the Church’s opposition to the death penalty. In the US, Vice-President Vance says he will not watch the execution by firing squad, which is due to be live-streamed in December

The Chicago-born pontiff is clearly keeping a close eye on headlines in the United States.

In the letter, Rep. Jamie Raskin and Rep. Jim Himes urged the FBI director to cancel the visit, citing “urgent national security concerns,” including the FSB's history of conducting espionage operations against American officials.

The student ran an online group specialized in ultraviolence and sextortion. His trial marks the first in France to address 'nihilistic violent extremism,' a movement that originated in the United States.

When U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner told Ukraine's delegation on Oct. 9 that President Donald Trump was preparing to lift sanctions on Russian diesel exports, the Ukrainians struggled to believe what they were hearing. The delegation had traveled to the United States to discuss a possible energy ceasefire with Russia. Instead, Kyiv's negotiators found themselves blindsided by a decision they feared would hand Moscow fresh revenue to finance its war against Ukraine while undermining Kyiv's leverage in negotiations. "It was not just our delegation there, but a European one as well," one senior Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent. "It's just that everyone was sitting there like fools." Washington was asking Ukraine to restrain its attacks on Russian energy while giving Moscow an economic reprieve — all as Trump faced consequences from the war against Iran. "And yet he's the one who got everyone dragged into a war in Iran — a war with no way out — and is selling us out… Just to get a temporary, deceptive reprieve a few weeks before the election," the official said. The Kyiv Independent spoke with several Ukrainian officials involved in or close to the negotiations. All of them were...

He wasn’t joking.