Maybe you’ve seen photos of Tehran in the 1970s, just before the Islamic Revolution: images of young women going to work in miniskirts, of couples making out in parks while wearing bell-bottoms, of ...

In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers performed a large-scale, observational, cross-cultural survey across 27 nations between October 2020 and July 2021. The ...

(RNS) — As the Catholic Synod on Synodality enters its “continental phase,” some have wondered if the church is moving toward Vatican Three. Of course, there are still fights going on about Vatican ...

A characteristically thoughtful and provocative column by David Brooks today, this one the coming “fight over the future of conservatism.” There are two camps, Brooks argues, the Reformers and the ...

ROME - Inside the frescoed nave of a church near the Colosseum, women in black veils and clean-cut young men listened in reverent silence to a largely forbidden rite: a Roman Catholic Mass in Latin. A ...

Earlier this year, two authors writing for the Brookings Institution posed an intriguing question: “Is the U.S. military’s futurism obsession hurting national security?” Their argument followed a ...

ROME (AP) — The development was significant, given Pope Francis had alienated many traditionalists and conservatives with his yearslong crackdown on the ancient liturgy. ROME (AP) — Traditionalist ...

On Tuesday, Pope Francis took part in an interview with Nicole Winfield, the Vatican correspondent for the Associated Press. After the interview was published, commentators in the United States ...