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Biden to meet Pope Francis in January, before leaving office

Dec 20, 2024
Elise Ann Allen

An assortment of American nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (Credit: U.S. Airforce/Public Domain.)

Catholic social justice columnist worries about rising specter of nuclear war

Dec 6, 2024
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Pope in Belgium calls for peace, condemns abuse, forced adoptions

Sep 27, 2024
Elise Ann Allen

The Olympic rings are set up at the Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sept. 14, 2017. (Credit: Michel Euler/AP.)

Vatican athletes urge call for ‘Olympic Truce’ as Paris games start

Jul 26, 2024
Elise Ann Allen

South Sudan’s then First Vice President Riek Machar, left, looks across at President Salva Kiir, right, as they sit to be photographed following the first meeting of a transitional coalition government, in the capital Juba, South Sudan on April 29, 2016. (Credit: Jason Patinkin/AP.)

South Sudan bishops blast government over lack of election preparation

Jul 1, 2024
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Santa Maria Matricolare cathedral in Verona. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Bishop says ‘kiss’ is central aspect of pope’s visit to Verona

May 17, 2024
Elise Ann Allen

Pope to visit city of Romeo and Juliet with theme ‘Justice and peace shall kiss’

Apr 29, 2024
Elise Ann Allen

Children look at an armored vehicle in Toribio, southwest Colombia, Oct. 30, 2019. A report published Tuesday, July 26, 2022, by the United Nations Human Rights Office said that violence is increasing in many rural areas of Colombia despite a 2016 peace deal between the government and the country’s largest guerrilla group.n killed in crimes that remain largely unsolved. (Credit: Christian Escobar Mora/AP.)

Colombian bishops call day of prayer as part of ‘silent service’ for peace

Apr 29, 2024
Eduardo Campos Lima

M23 rebels load a pickup truck in Kibumba, in the eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 23, 2022. Aid organisations fear a new humanitarian crisis in the restive eastern Congo region, where the renowned armed rebel group M23 is in the midst of a new advance that threatens to cut off a major city and leave millions of people struggling for food and medical help.(Credit: Moses Sawasawa/AP.)

Bishops in DR Congo urge Church to pray for peace in troubled country

Feb 23, 2024
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Top papal aide says South Sudan elections must be transparent, non-violent

Feb 5, 2024
Elise Ann Allen