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Emmanuel Macron skipped Pope Leo XIV’s enormous Mass in Paris, then changed his schedule to attend Mass in Metz. The explanation reveals how much more complicated French laïcité is than “separatio…

What can an ancient feast of angels tell us about September storms, shortening days, and the courage to keep watch for one another?

METZ, France (RNS) — On his final day in France, Pope Leo XIV urged European leaders to uphold multilateralism and international law and reject the 'illusion' of rearmament.

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Sen. Warnock criticized recent cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, arguing the nation lacks the moral will to help the poor.

PARIS (RNS) – Pope Leo XIV and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed on the need to promote peace and build ethical AI safeguards. But the pope also pointed to tensions between the Catholic Church a...

LOURDES, France (RNS) — With clerical abuse scandals and the Vatican trial of the Rev. Marko Rupnik looming over the pope's visit to France, Leo encouraged the church to 'have the courage' to recogniz...

As artificial intelligence becomes capable of doing more of the things we once thought uniquely human, perhaps we are asking the wrong question. Instead of asking what humans can do that machines …

Accounts raise tantalizing questions about what happens inside a brain afflicted by dementia and whether cognitive abilities could possibly be restored.

As new bereavement laws finally recognise a wider range of losses – from the death of a partner or parent to miscarriage, sibling loss, step-family and foster relationships — grief expert Julia Samuel...

How will the Vatican engage with an American political theology that unfolds under the sign of the apocalypse?

There is a phrase I have used for years to describe my spiritual life: My home is Christianity, but I have many cottages. Christianity is home. It is the place from which I understand God and huma…

Tonight, at the opening Mass of the DELTA Summit on AI, Faith and Human Flourishing at the University of Notre Dame, Cardinal Blase Cupich asked a question that has become increasingly difficult t…

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The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

For many children, the death of an animal is their first encounter with grief. What the adults around them say, and how we say it, matters.

Educator talks of ‘moral obligation’ and urges ‘every wealthy white celebrity’ to make similar donation

A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.

President Donald Trump's new appointees to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom include Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, the commission said Sept. 16. Spokespersons for USCR...

(RNS) — If approved by the Senate, Lynch would hold an office that has been unoccupied since the beginning of the second Trump administration.

(RNS) — Radicalized by COVID-19 and anger over immigration, right-wing pastors like Tobias Riemenschneider in Germany hope to gain followers by promoting conservative Christian views and politics. The...

(RNS) — The charge that criticism of Israel amounts to antisemitism is highly contested.

WASHINGTON (RNS) — The dangers of AI hung heavy over Tuesday's conference, including the faith-focused panel with evangelical, Catholic and LDS leaders.

We lift it high so that we can see it, but we must resist the temptation to climb upon it and make it a throne.

The United States has deployed weapons in space and will use them to defend American forces, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said Monday – the first public acknowledgment of such capabilities in orbit ...

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s controversial plan to change how mail ballots are sent to voters across the country, rebuffing a proposal that election officials warned w...

The platitudes, euphemisms and cliches are excruciating. But the people who say nothing at all are the worst, writes Polly Hudson

Twenty-five years after September 11, we remember. But memory raises a deeper question: what do we do with the wounds we carry? Forgiveness does not change the past, but by the grace of God, it ca…

Twenty-five years after September 11th, our grief has become more complicated. Some carry the deeply personal grief of someone they loved and lost; others carry the collective grief of a world tha…

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Artificial intelligence can assist with research, biblical interpretation, writing, and even pastoral preparation. But the central ethical question is not simply whether pastors use AI. It is what…

Christian hope trusts that the future belongs to God. It does not give politicians permission to hasten catastrophe, baptize political agendas as “God’s work,” or treat the end of the world as an …