La Croix: Eight million pilgrims are expected in Goa to view the relics of Saint Francis Xavier. What explains such enthusiasm? Michel Chambon: This deeply rooted tradition was established by the ...

Alison Wilson at the "Quay Swim" swimming spot at Camberley Lake, in Surrey, England. (Photo by Alice Zoo for La Croix) Jonna is nervous. As she walks across the frosted lawn of Hampstead Heath, a ...

Our era is obsessed with rankings, largely because of the growing emphasis on competition among individuals, institutions, and even nations. These days, we even rank the happiest people on Earth ...

Religious institutions, managing $3 trillion globally, have divested from fossil fuel companies more than any other sector, aligning their investments with their values. (Illustration photo from ...

They are carefully raised, sheltered behind thick fences and under the watch of surveillance cameras in the Jewish settlement of Shiloh, in occupied West Bank. Five red cows, seemingly harmless at ...

Scenes from the Life of Saint Augustine of Hippo, South Netherlandish — Master of the Legend of St. Augustine (fl. circa 1480–1490). (Photo: Creative Commons CC0 1.0) Pope Leo XIV entered the ...

10 février 2015 : Le card. Robert SARAH, Préfet de la Congrégation pour le culte divin et la discipline des sacrement, lors de la conférence de presse durant laquelle il a présenté le ...

Interview: Jean-Marc Lavergne, one of two French judges appointed by the United Nations to serve in the Khmer Rouge trials in Phnom Penh reflects on one of the 20th century’s greatest atrocities.

Since bishops have no children, though one could sarcastically point to more than a few exceptions in church history, apostolic succession refers not to a legal inheritance, but to the human chain ...

Father Chabi Kolawole, a religious of the Order of Saint Augustine (OSA), and Father Robert Prevost (now Pope Leo XIV), pictured on the grounds of the Augustinian International College "Santa ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost didn’t write much. No sweeping interviews in Jesuit journals. No autobiographical catecheses. No manifestos. But in the quiet preface he penned for a textbook on social ...

First Regina Coeli of Pope Leo XIV, Loggia of St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, May 11, 2025. (Photo by picture alliance / Stefano Spaziani/Newscom/MaxPPP) U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukrainian ...