Roughly 80% of UN members now back Palestinian statehood after several recognized it this week. We need to give the Palestinians hope for the future and also make sure that the Israelis can live in ...

The city of Gaza continues to reel as Israeli airstrikes pound multiple neighborhoods and the conflict there escalates. Days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the launch of a ...

Brookland’s Sherwood Farmhouse, built in 1885, has stood vacant since 2015, hidden from public view. It survives thanks to ...

Pope Leo XIV issued “Coniuncta Cura” to allow the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See to use banks outside ...

Pope Leo XIV receives the letters of credential of Brian F. Burch as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See during an audience Sept. 13, 2025, in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media ...

We are in constant dialogue with ambassadors. We also try to speak with heads of state when they come, always seeking a ...

Pope Leo XIV welcomed Brian Burch, a critic of the late Pope Francis, as the new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See Sept. 13, accepting his letters of credential and a chocolate cake topped with a ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV made a heartfelt appeal for a ceasefire in Gaza in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday (Sept. 17) as Israeli tanks advanced in Gaza City, displacing hundreds of thousands ...

Pope Leo XIV told the new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, Brian Burch, that he is praying for conservative activist Charlie Kirk, as well as his wife and children, following his murder last week in ...

As for-sale inventory increases and many listings are forced to take price cuts, home sellers may need to offer something extra to make their home stand out from others on the market. One way to do ...

High Holy Days FILE - People gather to light candles in a makeshift memorial to honor Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim who were killed as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Bishop Michael W. Fisher of the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo will soon travel to the Vatican for meetings with administrative offices of the Holy See to discuss ongoing developments in ...