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The sun sets behind the Denver skyline. (RNS/Unsplash/Nils Huenerfuerst)

Denver's Catholic archdiocese, famously conservative, enters the Leo era

Friar Daniele Aucone, foreground, deputy director of the Basilica of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, guides journalists through the basilica's cloister in Rome March 18, 2026. St. Catherine of Siena and the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico, both of whom are buried in the basilica. (AP/Domenico Stinellis)

A hidden cloister in the center of Rome has a turbulent past etched on its walls

A man walks along the shore as oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, March 11, 2026. (RNS/AP/Altaf Qadri)

Trump should have listened to the pope about clean energy. The Iran war shows why.

Bishop Jennifer Nagel, of the Minneapolis Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, speaks to reporters outside the federal courthouse in St. Paul, Minn., on March 20, 2026, after a federal judge ruled that clergy will be allowed to minister to immigrants in a holding facility at the headquarters of the Trump administration's enforcement surge in Minnesota. (AP/Steve Karnowski)

Federal judge grants injunction allowing clergy visits at Minneapolis ICE holding facility