Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

ROME — Immigration laws should not be made stricter but rather looser, to allow more immigrants to cross international borders, Pope Francis said Wednesday.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned Tuesday that the “climate crisis” threatens the lives of humans all over the world.

Comedian and Hollywood actor Russell Brand said Monday that coincidences are “created by prayer” as a kind of “sacred synergy.”

“The climate movement rushes to embrace Kamala Harris,” reads a recent headline underscoring the support for the Democratic ticket among those most worried about global warming.

A new report suggests that Catholic Democrats at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) “see no problem” with their party’s pro-choice platform, despite Church teaching that abortion is murder.

The United Nations alarmist-in-chief António Guterres warned Thursday that some Pacific territories face “annihilation” from rising sea levels.

The Jesuits’ flagship publication in the United States offered a lengthy comparison between the Republican and Democrat platforms on immigration this week, concluding that the Democrats’ solution is far superior to the Republicans.’

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich underscored the radical contrast between the top-down governance of the Democratic Party and the grassroots governance of Trump’s GOP.

The Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, has criticized a local Catholic college for hosting a fundraiser at which Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Walz defended abortion rights.

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the progressive Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, offered the invocation for the Democratic National Convention (DNC) Monday without ever mentioning Jesus Christ.

Pope Francis received Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his partner Lauren Sanchez in a private audience in the Vatican Thursday, underscoring his views on climate change.

The establishment media are whitewashing the Harris-Walz record in an attempt to reinvent the Democratic ticket, according to former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.

King’s Counsel Gregory Jones has ruled that Archbishop Justin Welby was “plainly wrong” in failing to defend a priest who was barred from preaching for five years after giving a sermon at a private school telling children they could question gender ideology.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has released a statement denying “false claims” that Catholic nonprofit organizations are complicit in human trafficking, smuggling, harboring, or child exploitation across the country’s southern border.

A police crackdown on unauthorized air conditioning units in the seaside Italian resort town of Portofino has ignited local “vendettas” as neighbors spy and report on one another for the infraction, local media report.

Openly gay priest Father William McNichols has created a new icon of Pope Francis kissing Jesus Christ’s feet for Father James Martin’s August LGBT outreach event.

A leading South African bishop has warned of a mounting presence and increased financial activity of individuals linked to the Islamic State.

A report released Monday by USC’s Understanding America Study (UAS) suggests that the use of hyperbolic terms to describe global warming has no effect on people’s perceptions of the urgency of climate change.

Anti-global warming organizations and agitators have been falling over themselves to endorse Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris, insisting her record of green-friendly activism speaks for itself.

Pope Francis prayed Sunday for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a topic he has returned to on numerous occasions.

The Vatican said this weekend it was “saddened” by the drag queen parody of the Last Supper on display during the July 26 opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, after critics complained loudly over the Vatican’s silence on the matter.

Organizers of the opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games have issued a non-apology apology for any offense “taken” by Christians from a drag queen parody of Jesus’ Last Supper.

The French bishops have released a statement expressing their consternation over the anti-Christian parody of the Last Supper at the opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris Friday night.

Minnesota Bishop Robert Barron has denounced the drag queen parody of the Last Supper for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics as a “gross mockery” of Christianity.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue pointed out Thursday that Kamala Harris got the nod as Joe Biden’s VP because she was a black woman, which is the very definition of a DEI hire.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has come under fire from a number of faith-based groups for her well-known record of “anti-Catholic bigotry.”

Climate alarmists are lamenting July’s warm weather, asserting that earth saw its hottest day on record this week and likely “the hottest day in thousands of years.”

Climate and environmental activists warn a possible second presidential term for former President Donald Trump poses an “extreme” threat to animals and must be fought tooth and nail.

Pope Francis has called for a ceasefire to armed conflicts to mark the Olympic Games that begin in Paris this week.

Prominent figures continue to appeal to Pope Francis to relax his draconian campaign against the Traditional Latin Mass.

The Vatican condemned Saturday’s assassination attempt against former U.S. President Donald Trump, calling the assault a “wound” to democracy.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has denounced climate change-fueled summer heatwaves that claim “hundreds of lives.”

Climate-fueled weather disasters in Texas are tied to “a government hostile to the very concept of climate change,” Bloomberg Opinion editor Mark Gongloff declared Tuesday.

Pope Francis released a statement Tuesday denouncing military attacks in Kyiv and Gaza while calling for an end to both conflicts.

The Biden Department of State has released its annual report on the U.S. government’s international efforts to impose its LGBTQI+ agenda on the world.

ROME — Pope Francis warned Sunday democracy is in “crisis” around the world, likely with an eye to a rise in right-wing parties across Italy, Austria, Argentina, Netherlands, and Germany.