(JTA) — Henry Kissinger, the first Jewish secretary of state and the controversial mastermind of American foreign policy in the 1970s — orchestrating the U.S. opening to China, negotiating the ...

BEIJING--Official China called Henry Kissinger “an old friend.” A commentator likened him to a giant panda, a goodwill ambassador between two countries that have been at odds more often than ...

If Henry Kissinger had a superpower, it was his profound empathy for how states calculate their interests. Kissinger believed that, underneath the politics, ideology, and notions of morality that seem ...

Pope Benedict XVI wrote to the Irish faithful in 2010 following the devastating revelations of the country’s clergy sexual abuse crisis. But it’s rare for a pope to weigh in on a specific ...

Or replace it. Schmidt coauthored Genesis, with former Microsoft executive Craig Mundie and the late Henry Kissinger, who died in 2023 about a year before the book's publication. Kissinger ...

He was appointed bishop of Salina, Kansas, by Pope Benedict XVI on Feb. 6, 2012, and ordained on May 1 of that year. Pope Francis subsequently appointed him bishop of Tucson on Oct. 3, 2017 ...

For 16 years, Vigneron has been the archbishop of Detroit, named by Pope Benedict XVI in January 2009 to lead Catholics in the six counties that make up the Archdiocese of Detroit: Wayne ...

Henry Kissinger, who died Wednesday at age 100, was an American original. And like many who merit that description, he was not born in the United States. Global leaders pay tribute to Henry ...

the Vatican had to cover up a major scandal when it emerged that Pope Benedict XV’s key aide was a German agent. During the rise of fascist Italy, Mussolini monitored Vatican mail and tapped its ...