These past weeks, I have been struck by the photos of the five teenage boys who died while taking part in a TikTok dare to drive the wrong way up a motorway. While their actions were appalling and wrong, I feel sorry for their families, and, as an uncle of a teenager, for the boys…
In recent weeks, Palestinians in the West Bank have experienced a massive increase in violent attacks by armed Israeli settlers, who are driving them off their land and destroying houses and crops in an effort to displace them and seize their lands. There is clear Israeli government support for these “invasions.” United States Ambassador to…
For the second time during Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate, the Holy Father has been included in a top fashion magazine’s list for “best dressed.” Vanity Fair released its annual Best Dressed list on August 5 and included the pope in “the originals” category. In December 2025, the pope was named one of Vogue magazine’s 55…
With more than 135,000 people reported missing in Mexico, groups of so-called madres buscadoras (Spanish for “searching mothers”) have emerged across the Latin American nation and have become a powerful social movement. A major march is scheduled to take place on August 30 in Hermosillo, the capital and largest city in Mexico’s northwestern Sonora state,…
The scope of catastrophic flash flooding along the border between Nepal and China continued to grow on Sunday, as rescue workers continued their race against the clock and authorities in Nepal urged residents in affected districts to remain on alert after water levels rose in the Bhotekoshi River. The death toll rose to at least…
Meta has agreed to pay approximately $18 billion to settle claims the company misled the public about the potential mental health impacts of its social media platforms on children and teens. A $17.1 billion settlement ends a landmark federal trial in California and includes agreements covering 47 states, the District of Columbia and several US…
A Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court judge acquitted a man accused of attacking a Catholic nun based on his insanity defense, but ordered him committed to psychiatric hospitalisation for up to six years. The violent assault in April on a nun walking in her habit in Jerusalem’s Old City sent shock waves across Israel and its many…
The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) recently issued a new policy called Military Personnel Instructions on Spiritual Reflections in Military Settings in which they outlaw God. At what point did Canada turn into Albania? Not the new Albania, but the old Communist one with its crazed leader for life, Enver Hoxha. What the new military missive…
For a priest, taking time to rest is not a “luxury,” the secretary of the Vatican Dicastery for Evangelisation said, urging priests to embrace healthy periods away from work to sustain their physical and mental health. In his address during the launch of a six-week formation programme that seeks to explore priestly life in Nigeria,…