Clad like his classmates in a paint-splotched apron protecting his black Cretin-Derham Hall polo shirt, Jono Krummen carefully dabbed royal blue paint on a canvas last spring as he worked on a portrait of his dog, Pearl, a mini goldendoodle.

Soaring housing prices are quietly but powerfully discouraging young people from getting married, starting families or having more children. If you can't afford a home, it's easy to doubt whether you can offer your children a stable, secure life. That doubt becomes a practical barrier to family formation and, ultimately, to the flourishing of society itself.

Pope Leo XIV has approved a change in the Vatican labor laws to encourage offices to hire people with disabilities and to make the necessary accommodations.

Pope Leo XIV has given permission for U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke to celebrate the traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter's Basilica during a pilgrimage in October.