Social media need to promote more kindness than bluster and division, the pope said.

An ecumenical campaign to halt gun violence issued a call for background checks.

“People are hiding in their homes, unable to venture out.”

Msgr. Francis D. Kelly, a priest of the Diocese of Worcester, Mass., was installed on Jan. 20 as a canon of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, becoming the first U.S.-born canon in almost 50 years. • Anti-abortion groups from 20 different countries launched a petition in January to

Among the disasters that mark the war can be added the destruction of the environment.

While applauding the recognition by the European Court of Human Rights of the right of a British airline employee to wear a cross on her uniform, the Vatican lamented the court’s denial of the full right of conscientious objection in other cases involving claims of religious discrimination in