Pope Francis received a new, emission-free, all-electric popemobile from representatives of Mercedes-Benz, the German car manufacturer that has been supplying vehicles for the popes for nearly 100 years.

At a general audience, Pope Francis said that homilies should run under 10 minutes and be guided by the Holy Spirit.

“In Hong Kong, we have our wounds that we need to heal,” Cardinal Stephen Chow, S.J., the bishop of Hong Kong, told America’s Vatican correspondent in this exclusive interview.

John Banville is surely the only crime novelist in recent memory who has won the Booker Prize and is regularly rumored to be in the running for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

“Joe Biden said one thing and did the opposite. A father’s love meant more to the president than keeping his word.”

The possibility of a “fourth order” of deaconess in the Catholic Church has become part of the conversation around women deacons. But is it the right response?

Trump will attend the ceremony alongside French President Emmanuel Macron.

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Francis Xavier, priest, by Connor Hartigan

Quebec has played host to a number of cults and alternative religions over the years, from the Ant Hill Kids, the cruelly abused followers of Roch Thériault to the U.F.O. believers of the Raelian Church.