Pope Francis placed hope at the center of the Jubilee Year 2025. In the Bull of Indiction of the Jubilee, Spes Non Confundit, ...

Social networks pose hidden dangers to mental health, especially in children. Experts warn of manipulation, addiction, and ...

In the early days after the election of Pope Francis, friends who came from Buenos Aires to meet him were amazed at the new pope’s vitality and energy. They loved and admired him and were naturally ...

Jenny Erpenbeck is a German writer, born in East Berlin in 1967. The daughter and granddaughter of intellectuals, writers and theater directors, she was educated in the former German Democratic ...

On January 10, 2025, the World Meteorological Organization released official temperature data for 2024, showing that last year was the hottest on record, exceeding the pre-industrial level by nearly 1 ...

Five years after his election Pope Francis has decided to publish his third apostolic exhortation, titled Gaudete et Exsultate (GE). As the subtitle explicitly states, its theme is “the call to ...

The responsibility of being a woman is a key theme for the singer-songwriter Laura Marling, as ...

On January 10, 2025, the World Meteorological Organization released official temperature data for 2024, showing that ...

In the vision of Pope Francis, fraternity – being brothers and sisters – has a transcendental value and a programmatic character. If you “pass by,” taking it for granted, or if you use the term ...

Every month in this column we look at some new bit of scientific research from the Vatican Observatory. However, with the recent publication of the Observatory’s Annual Report 2024, the full range of ...