Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

The criminal gang that abducted a group of 17 North American Christian missionaries in Haiti this weekend has demanded $1 million each for their release.

Texas Right to Life has denounced President Joe Biden’s attempts to pressure the U.S. Supreme Court into blocking the pro-life Texas Heartbeat Act.

The Sicilian archdiocese of Catania has abolished the role of godfather and godmother at Catholic baptisms, asserting that the institution has devolved into a method of strengthening family ties and sometimes criminal ties rather than bonds of Christian faith.

Pope Francis decried recent lethal attacks Sunday, urging people to “abandon the path of violence” in favor of a peaceful resolution of conflicts.

The White House announced Thursday that President Joe Biden will meet with Pope Francis in the Vatican on October 29, where the two will discuss “tackling the climate crisis,” among other topics.

Italy’s universal vaccine mandate for workers went into effect Friday, triggering countrywide strikes and protest rallies.

The U.S. Catholic bishops expressed their dismay over the 100th act of anti-Catholic vandalism since they began tracking the phenomenon last May.

Pope Francis commemorated World Food Day Friday, urging nations to combat food insecurity and work to achieve environmental sustainability.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue writes that Joe Donnelly, President Biden’s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, is a “rogue Catholic” despite reports to the contrary.

The American bumble bee is destined to go the way of the brontosaurus and the wooly mammoth thanks to manmade climate change, media report.

Pope Francis hammered home his condemnation of abortion Thursday, insisting that medical professionals should opt out of the procedure for reasons of conscience.

The Catholic archbishop of the U.S. military said this week that Catholic military personnel could refuse the mandated coronavirus vaccine on religious grounds.

The U.S. bishops’ pro-life chairman Archbishop Joseph Naumann is urging President Biden to act like the “devout Catholic” he says he is by opposing the evil of abortion, Catholic News Agency reported Tuesday.

A global energy crisis is assailing the international economy just as the United Nations gears up to demand an end to cheap, affordable fossil fuels at its COP26 climate conference.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has published a special report in anticipation of the COP26 Climate Change Conference, insisting that the “burning of fossil fuels is killing us.”

“Within the lifetime of Prince George, much of Buckingham Palace could be underwater,” the Daily Mail reports Tuesday, citing a new climate change study.

President Joe Biden will almost certainly meet with Pope Francis when in Rome on October 30-31, the Vatican Nuncio to the United States has confirmed.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi described this weekend’s private audience with Pope Francis as a “spiritual, personal and official honor.”

ROME — President Joe Biden has named pro-life former Democrat Congressman Joseph Donnelly as U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, a choice expected to garner easy confirmation both in the Vatican and the U.S. Senate.

The president of the European Catholic Bishops’ Conferences (COMECE), Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, has rejected European Commission warnings that illegal immigration is being used to “destabilise Europe,” calling instead for the facilitation of migration into Europe.

The Vatican announced this weekend that Pope Francis will not attend the upcoming United Nations Climate Conference (COP26) in Glasgow.

Pope Francis granted a private audience in the Vatican to U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Saturday, just two weeks after the House passage of the most radical pro-abortion legislation ever introduced.

Pope Francis urged governments Saturday to “adopt without delay a course of action that would limit the average global temperature rise.”

Vatican foreign minister Archbishop Paul Gallagher has called for increased redistribution as a necessary means of overcoming economic inequality, the Catholic News Service reported Wednesday.

Pope Francis denounced war and the arms trade Thursday, calling on people of faith to “condemn every form of violence.”

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has denounced the partnership between progressive Democrats and billionaire disrupter George Soros.

Pope Francis warned Thursday that the climate crisis has become so acute it now threatens “life itself” on earth.

Pope Francis has reacted to a report on clerical sex abuse in France, expressing his own shame and that of the Church for the failure to effectively address the problem.

Vatican foreign minister Archbishop Paul Gallagher said Sunday that the environment is a natural meeting point in dialogue between the Holy See and Beijing.

Pope Francis said Tuesday that the world’s assorted religions are all “different ways of coming to God,” representing a “richness” deserving of respect.