Diplomacy is back. At least, talk about negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war is finally in vogue, as the battlefield ...

Mainstream Christianity’s attitudes about sex have always been complicated—and its institutions might even be able to evolve.

In the days since his death, Pope Francis has been called a reformer, outsider, influencer and modernizer. He was all of these things. But he was also the steward of the oldest institution in the ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

ROME — Pope Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican Grottoes. After his ...