“Oppenheimer” is both a startling re-examination of American history and a bleak warning about the nuclear age.

What obligation does the United States still owe these Christians and other Iraqi religious minorities? What is it willing to do to assist and protect them?

The basic question centers on whether the present military conflict in Sudan will metastasize into a protracted, all-out civil war as both generals repeat in their own ways the atrocities begun by Mr. al-Bashir years ago in Darfur.

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, recently concluded a two-week visit to Poland and war-torn Ukraine, he shares his experience with America's Vatican correspondent, Gerry O'Connell.

Twitter has done its best to make me cynical. But every once in a while, there is a Grimace Shake moment.

Catholics in Honduras prayed for the victims of a horrific massacre in a women’s prison—an attack underscoring the power of the country’s criminal gangs and their control over correctional facilities.