Higher Ground
Why people keep looking for Noah’s Ark in a natural rock formation in Turkey
A team of researchers from Sivas Cumhuriyet University in Turkey is investigating a long-standing claim: that a boat-shaped geological formation in the country's east contains the remains of Noah's Ark.
Pope Leo XIV opens status check on Pope Francis’ contentious opening to civilly remarried Catholics
Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday urged Catholic leaders to courageously accompany families in their weaknesses and failures, as he embraced one of Pope Francis' most contentious teachings about welcoming Catholics in second marriages and otherwise "irregular" unions.
2023 Pentagon memo sounded ‘religious liberty concerns’ with Biden admin’s gender identity policies
Some military Chaplain Corps personnel believed that the Biden administration's mandates on preferred pronouns, restroom access and other gender identity policies raised "significant religious liberty concerns" for American troops, according to an internal Pentagon memo shared exclusively with The Washington Times.
What 1,000 years of golden roses tell us about popes’ authority and influence, from Leo IX to Leo XI
Almost every ceremonial object or ornament of the medieval papal monarchy has disappeared or lost its original purpose. Yet one survives: the golden rose.
Columbus’ own writings reveal how tightly religion and conquest were intertwined from the start
Columbus told a powerful tale. He believed that God had endowed him with remarkable intelligence, despite enemies' allegations that he was "an uneducated man, an uninformed sailor, an ordinary person."
