By Tessa Gervasini·DC Bureau Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said this week that the state should end the death penalty, with the governor arguing that he no longer believes it is a “deterrent” to murder. “I believe Ohio should abolish the death penalty,” the Catholic Republican governor said at a June …

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú Pope Leo XIV on Monday praised the missionary legacy of Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, the famed American evangelist who will be beatified Sept. 24 in St. Louis, calling him “a light of faith, hope, and love.” The pope made his remarks June 1 during an audience with participants …

By Ishmael Adibuah·Vatican Bureau Papal encyclicals are a powerful way the pope shapes global debates and articulates Church doctrine, but how should Catholics understand them? With the announcement of Pope Leo XIVʼs first papal encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas: “On the Protection of Human Dignity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” there is much …

In 1891, Pope Leo XIII issued a groundbreaking encyclical letter called Rerum Novarum—the “New Things.” In that letter, Pope Leo applied 1900 years of the development of Catholic theology to the moral, social, economic, and political crises and challenges caused by the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century. Thus did …