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Trump-Meloni Relationship Deteriorates After Fresh Public Clash

Brendan Smialowski
President Donald Trump meets with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 17, 2025.

ANALYSIS: Months after Trump’s criticism of Pope Leo XIV strained ties, a new exchange of insults has further damaged his relationship with Italy’s conservative prime minister.

Archbishop Paglia’s ‘Paradigm Shift’ in Moral Theology Comes Into Focus

Daniel Ibáñez
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia is the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

COMMENTARY: The former head of the John Paul II Institute says his reforms were meant to rethink natural law and replace ‘armchair theology’ with one rooted in ‘history and people’s lives.’

One if By Land, Two if By Sea

Jeffrey Bruno
The sun shines down upon a ship's mast during the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage June 2026.

As America approaches its 250th birthday, the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage carries Christ by land and sea, inviting a nation to remember its deepest foundations.

The Remarkable Coincidence That Linked St. Thérèse and Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche and St. Thérèse of Lisieux

COMMENTARY: A Paris hotel elevator gave St. Thérèse of Lisieux a lasting image of the Little Way — while, in a striking historical irony, Nietzsche, the philosopher of the ‘death of God,’ may have been staying in the same hotel.

Vatican Publishes Pope Benedict XVI's Private Homilies in English

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI celebrates Mass in the chapel of the Vatican's Teutonic Cemetery for his former students during their annual gathering on Aug. 30, 2015.

The Vatican Publishing House released the English edition of 'The Lord Holds Us by the Hand' on June 24.