Marie Dennis

Prominent Catholic women across the globe are continuing to raise objections to the title of Pope Francis' forthcoming new encyclical, "Fratelli tutti," which uses the Italian masculine plural to address the world's population.

The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by atomic bomb explosions 75 years ago this August, hastening the end of World War II. And while a nuclear arms race emerged during the 1960s, such weapons have not been deployed in warfare since. Nuclear disarmament advocates want to keep it that way.

The U.S. assassination of Qassem Soleimani has occasioned a new round of all-too-familiar rhetoric about enemies deserving of death, even if questions are being raised about the strategy and its fallout.

For a range of Catholic ethicists, peace advocates and veterans, the Afghanistan Papers' revelations of government deceit were as indicative of a problem in our culture as it was of a failed war strategy.

French Bishop Marc Stenger and Kenyan Sr. Teresia Wamuyu Wachira have been elected to the shared leadership of the global Catholic peace organization Pax Christi International.

As the U.S. considers next steps in its involvement in Venezuela's tense stand-off between Nicolás Maduro and Juan Guaidó, economic sanctions raise a tangle of ethical and moral as well as geo-political issues that experts disagree about.

Vatican City — Participants said the meeting, co-hosted by Pax Christi and the Vatican's human development office, provided ample material for Pope Francis to consider for an encyclical.

Perspective: While World War I changed what war itself could be, it also began a change in how the church's leadership and laity thought about war, the United States, and Catholics' role in both.