Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

Jesuit Father Thomas Reese has asserted that anyone who doubts the climate crisis “is so deep in denial they would not flee a burning house if their clothes were on fire.”

Pope Francis has called for more effective aid to migrants trying to reach European shores, decrying the death toll of those attempting the perilous journey from north Africa to Italy.

Pope Francis has mourned the death of 41 shipwrecked migrants in the Mediterranean Sea in the midst of a new wave of immigration from Africa into Italy.

Human rights champion Nina Shea has slammed Pope Francis for his policy of appeasement with China, insisting that it emboldens President Xi Jinping in his oppression of Chinese Catholics.

The once venerable Lancet medical journal alleges this week that the “impact of climate change on malaria is becoming increasingly evident.”

Salvation, holiness, and evangelization will share the stage with an overtly environmentalist program at World Youth Day 2023, the largest Catholic youth festival of the year.

Italy’s defense minister Guido Crosetto has blasted his country’s 2019 decision to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), calling the move “improvised and villainous.”

Climate alarmists’ overwrought accounts of hot summer weather are “fueling mental derangements,” writes WSJ’s Allysia Finley in a searing op-ed Monday.

Pope Francis told a young transgender person this week that God loves all of us as we are and finds none of us “disgusting.”

Pope Francis has sent Bologna Cardinal Matteo Zuppi to hand-deliver a personal letter to U.S. President Joe Biden appealing for collaboration in the Ukraine peace process.

The Vatican announced this weekend that it will accept China’s autonomous appointment of a Catholic bishop without Church approval.

Portuguese Bishop Américo Aguiar, tapped by Pope Francis to become a cardinal, has caused a stir by insisting that the Catholic Church is not trying to convert young people to Jesus Christ.

Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández, the newly appointed prefect of the Vatican’s doctrinal office (DDF), insisted in a recent interview that he is not a Freemason or a “Soros spy infiltrated in the Church.”

Pope Francis received former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Alex Soros (son of billionaire George Soros) in a private audience in the Vatican’s Santa Marta residence Wednesday.

Pope Francis has elevated Argentinian Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández, his longtime friend and ghostwriter, as new chief of the Vatican’s powerful doctrinal office.

United States bishops have blasted 31 “Catholic” Democrats who have tried to justify their abortion advocacy by appealing to faith.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has denied a correlation between homosexuality and clerical sex abuse, calling it a “serious and scientifically untenable association.”

Pope Francis stunned the faithful this weekend when he welcomed some 200 avant-garde artists in the Sistine Chapel, including photographer Andres Serrano, creator of the controversial “Piss Christ” work showing a crucifix submerged in a glass of urine.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this week that Italy intends to set an example in aiding persecuted Christians around the world, insisting that “religious freedom is not a second-class right.”

The Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) noted in its annual report Thursday that Christian persecution has been “sharply on the rise” and “its terrible impacts have only begun to be felt.”

A U.N.-certified “expert” on sexual orientation and gender identity declared Wednesday that religious communities must yield to the demands of LGBT persons to avoid charges of violence and discrimination.

Islamic extremists slaughtered dozens of Christian schoolchildren at a boarding school in Uganda on Friday, including 20 girls who were hacked to death with machetes, the Barnabas Fund reported.

The Cuban government has underscored the common vision it shares with Pope Francis on a series of issues including nuclear disarmament, environmental protection, and the war on poverty.

Pope Francis received John Kerry in private audience at the Vatican Monday, where the two discussed the importance of combating climate change for the good of the planet.

Islamist Fulani militants slaughtered some 700 defenseless Christians during May 2023 as a parting gift to outgoing Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, a leading human rights organization reports.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with Tesla founder and Twitter owner Elon Musk for an hour and a half in Rome this week, bonding over concerns about low natality rates.

Pope Francis has promised prayers for the success of an LGBTQQIAAP2S+ conference in New York led by Father James Martin.

Miami archbishop Thomas Wenski said this weekend that President Joe Biden’s habit of playing up his Catholicism “gives all us bishops heartburn” because of his abortion extremism.

Three-time Italian Prime Minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi died Monday at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, where he had been hospitalized since last Friday for chronic leukemia.

Now is “no time for complacency on COVID-19,” warns the once-venerable Lancet medical journal in its latest issue.

The U.S. Bishops have issued a statement celebrating the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Celebrated evangelist Franklin Graham gave a shout-out Thursday to high school valedictorian Lydia Owens for invoking the name of Jesus Christ in her graduation commencement address.

Pope Francis was hospitalized for an incisional hernia Wednesday morning and will undergo same-day major surgery under general anesthesia, the Vatican revealed.

Pope Francis told an environmental group this week that he has banned plastic in the Vatican and the small city-state is now “93 percent plastic-free.”

The California Catholic Conference has issued a statement condemning the state legislature’s decision to publicly honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of gay men in drag mocking Catholic nuns.

Jesuit Father James Martin said this weekend that celebrating Gay Pride is compatible with devotion to the Sacred Heart because both teach us about the love of Jesus.