New research shows a worldwide trend of people either leaving the religion they were raised in or completely dropping religion, with Christianity taking a particularly big hit.

More than 230 people attended "Signs of the Times: Interdisciplinary Responses to Religious Nationalism" March 20-22 at the University of Notre Dame.

The Feb. 24 anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine was an opportunity to offer "ever more fervent prayers for peace," but Trump's reset in relations with Putin was also proving difficult to understand.

Journalists dismissed by the Trump administration's gutting of the federally funded Voice of America broadcaster "will not be silenced," said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Archeparchy of Philadelphia.