The Atlantic: …A conference on “global fraternity” has featured rabbis, imams, swamis, cardinals, and obscure religious officiaries whose titles I had never heard before. …The assembled clerics, seemingly one of every type, were a sort of warm-up crew for the…

CNSNews: According to Vatican observer Edwin Pentin, it [was] “not clear” whether “the role of homosexuality in the abuse crisis” [would] be addressed at the Vatican summit on clergy sexual abuse. . . . One thing is for sure: every…

CNN: In a remarkable admission, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx said Saturday that documents that could have contained proof of clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church were destroyed or never drawn up. “Files that could have documented the terrible deeds…

Deutsche Welle: Turkey appears to be building a military infrastructure independent of NATO – much to the annoyance of Washington. But President Recep Tayyip Erdogan might need that new S-400 missile defense system at home. Turkey has risked the anger…

CNSNews: On Monday night, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) used her authority to table a bill in the Senate that would have prohibited the killing of a child that survives an abortion and instituted penalties for any health worker who…

America Magazine: Pope Francis made history this morning when he celebrated Mass for more than 135,000 Catholics from many nations and cultures at the Zayed Sports stadium in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. It was the largest Christian…

Fortune: Pope Francis met with Microsoft President Brad Smith on Wednesday at the Vatican to discuss the ethical use of artificial intelligence [AI] and how to bridge the digital divide between rich and poor nations, Reuters reports. The Vatican’s Academy for Life, a research…

Just days after the pope signed the most important interfaith document in history; he had the opportunity to address global political leaders by video at the World Government Summit in Dubai. During his remarks he once again stressed the need…

The New Yorker: No one tells a Supreme Court Justice when to retire. But there are currently two retirement dramas under way at the Court—one semi-public and the other semi-private—and they both have the potential to reshape the meaning of the…

Catholic News Agency: A Catholic doctor in Australia could face suspension or the loss of his license for refusing to refer a couple who sought the sex-based abortion of their unborn daughter. “I refused to refer the patient because there…

The Guardian: The US vice-president, Mike Pence, has sharply rebuked Washington’s European allies over their efforts to shield their businesses from US sanctions on Iran, as transatlantic tensions over U.S. foreign policy were laid bare at a conference in Warsaw….

CharismaNews: At the foot of the rebuilt World Trade Center in New York City, a somber 9/11 monument features the names of the 2,606 people who died in the terrorist attack. Besides those names, it also mentions 11 unborn children….