La Croix (International)

4 weeks ago | international.la-croix.com | Arnaud Alibert

The disciples stand with their eyes raised to the sky, watching the one who taught them how to truly love disappear from view. It’s the moment of the Ascension. From the outside, it might just look like a painful farewell. So, where does the truth lie? One thing is clear: it's a moment of heartbreak for these friends. No doubt, in quiet murmurs—because they don’t dare to cry out loud—they’re saying, “Stay with us; we still need you so much!” And yet, there is joy, too. The story isn’t over.

1 month ago | international.la-croix.com | Thomas Guichard

Karine Sahakian no longer watches the news. The 45-year-old prefers oldvideos of her pigs — once happily trotting through the garden of her home inHadrut, a town in Nagorno-Karabakh now emptied of its Armenian residents. Forced to flee to neighboring Armenia in 2023 as Azerbaijan retook theenclave by force, Sahakian released her 40 pigs into the wild. “What amistake,” she says repeatedly.

1 month ago | international.la-croix.com | Youna Rivallain

Pope Leo XIV entered the Order of Saint Augustine at age 22, and hisspirituality has been deeply shaped by the rule and thought of St. Augustine ofHippo. Augustine’s legacy emphasizes interiority, the search for peace, and thepursuit of unity—hallmarks that have already emerged in the new pope’s earlygestures. From his first words on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, Leo XIV set thetone.

1 month ago | international.la-croix.com | Arnaud Alibert

Our lives are full of moral dilemmas, as St. Thomas More liked to say. Choosing a pope. Picking the right school for your kids. Taking a stand in the end-of-life debate. Not all decisions carry the same weight, of course, but they all stir an inner debate. That personal tug-of-war—the discomfort of weighing options, the doubt that we’ve made the right call—can wear us down. So how do we avoid getting stuck there? Believers often turn to God, asking for light in moments of decision.

1 month ago | international.la-croix.com | Youna Rivallain

Putting to rest weeks of speculation, Pope Leo XIV announced May 24 that Cardinal Robert Sarah, the Guinean prelate and former prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, will serve as his special envoy to the sanctuary of Sainte-Anne-d’Auray this July. The cardinal will preside over liturgical celebrations marking the 400th anniversary of the apparitions of Saint Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary, to Breton farmer Yvon Nicolazic between 1623 and 1625.