Foreign Policy

Carney can confirm his Catholic credentials

Quinton Amundson · January 21, 2026

Upon Mark Carney’s formal entry into the Liberal Party leadership race almost exactly a year ago, supporters endorsed the eventual prime minister as a cosmopolitan man of the world.

Cardinals seek ‘genuinely moral’ U.S. foreign policy

Gina Christian · January 21, 2026

Three U.S. cardinals have issued a joint statement urging the creation of a “genuinely moral foreign policy for our nation,” as the U.S. faces “the most profound and searing debate about the moral foundation for America’s actions in the world since the end of the Cold War.”

Crisis of values could spark war: Parolin

Junno Arocho Esteves · January 21, 2026

From unilateral actions in Venezuela to continued violence in Iran, the world is steadily sliding into a “crisis of values” that risks sparking international war, the Vatican’s top diplomat warned.

Canadian Christian agencies sound alarm on declining aid

Claire Porter Robbins · December 18, 2025

Canadian Christian aid agencies are raising concerns that the $2.7-billion reduction to overseas development assistance (ODA) in the federal budget over the next four years will contradict the churches’ moral commitments and have serious consequences for vulnerable communities and Canada’s international reputation.

Ukraine's religious leaders warn Russia will attack Europe if not halted, held accountable

Gina Christian · December 3, 2025

As Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians accompany U.S.-brokered peace talks that as of Dec. 3 produced no breakthrough, Ukraine's religious leaders warn that failure to halt Russia and hold it accountable will expand the war to Europe.

Trump-Putin summit fails to advance peace, justice

Gina Christian · August 18, 2025

The Alaska summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin has ultimately failed to address the "fundamental moral and geopolitical questions" of Russia's multiyear war on Ukraine, said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.

European bishops address 'rising tensions' as Trump talks to Putin, Zelenskyy

Jonathan Luxmoore · March 19, 2025

As President Donald Trump held new talks with Russia's President Vladimir Putin March 18, followed by a call with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine March 19, bishops across Europe expressed alarm at current geopolitical developments.

4 in 5 USAID projects now canceled, with U.S. State Department overseeing the rest

Kate Scanlon · March 10, 2025

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said March 10 that just 18% of programs of the now-shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development will remain intact, and those will now fall under his purview at the State Department.

EU bishops call for unity in supporting Ukraine

Junno Arocho Esteves · March 5, 2025

European bishops have called for unity on the continent following U.S. President Donald Trump ordering a “pause” on U.S. assistance to Ukraine.

Editorial

Call evil what it is

February 12, 2025

No one would ever mistake Donald Trump for a theologian, but he does share a trait of the worst theology in making the clear incomprehensible at the best of times.