The U.N. biodiversity summit, COP16, officially ended Feb. 28 in Rome, four months after the biannual talks began in Cali, Colombia. Nations reached deals on mobilizing funds and monitoring conservation commitments. 

Brad Sigmon chose to be the first person executed in the U.S. by firing squad in 15 years because he believed the alternatives — lethal injection and electrocution — are more horrific.

A Vatican update on the pope's health said, "In order to continue recording these initial improvements in the coming days, the doctors are prudently keeping the prognosis reserved." 

The new composition premiered this month in Georgia at the Lyke House Catholic Center, with a planned expansion due in the coming months.

The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust by Francis S. Collins, a medical doctor and head of the team of scientists uncovering the human genome project, offers a timely message of truth and understanding as a possible antidote to today’s political turmoil and social unrest.

Bryan Johnson, the focus of the Netflix documentary "Don't Die," and Hannah Neeleman of Ballerina Farm have something in common: a theology of pleasure-denial now to yield ultimate reward later. 

Fr. Emil Kapaun, a military chaplain who served during two wars, was decreed "Venerable" by the Vatican's Dicastery for the Causes of Saints at the direction of Pope Francis, moving him one step closer to possible sainthood. 

Scripture for Life: Lent is our time to allow divine love to touch us so deeply that we begin to see like Jesus did, and thus act in his name. 

Georgetown University cites its Catholic and Jesuit mission in rebuffing the acting U.S. attorney's threats and criticism of diversity, equity and inclusion programs and curriculum. 

Cardinal McElroy was the principal celebrant and homilist and distributed ashes during the Ash Wednesday Mass. It was his first public Mass in the archdiocese since Pope Francis appointed him Jan. 6 to succeed the retiring archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory. Cardinal McElroy will be installed March 11.