The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans heard oral arguments Aug. 4 in Franciscan Alliance v. Becerra, a challenge to a federal mandate that requires doctors to perform gender transition procedures even ...
Father Jorge Torres, a priest of the Diocese of Orlando, Florida, has been appointed as the next executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations at the ...
Decrying President Joe Biden's new executive order on abortion, the chairman of the U.S. bishops' pro-life committee said Aug. 5 that "continued promotion of abortion takes lives and irreparably harms vulnerable pregnant mothers, their families ...
Chicago-based Catholic Extension launched the first of many initiatives it has planned over the next 18 months to support Uvalde, Texas, following the devastation of the Robb Elementary mass shooting. It sponsored Camp I-CAN July 25-28 ...
"Critical" anti-trafficking legislation overwhelmingly approved by the House in a bipartisan vote July 26 "will go a long way toward protecting so many vulnerable people from exploitation while providing tremendous support and resources to victims," ...
A diocese in the northern Philippines appealed for aid July 27 after a magnitude 7 earthquake that killed at least four and injured dozens. The Archdiocese of Tuguegarao in northeastern Luzon said churches and historical sites ...
The Diocese of Phoenix is taking a major step forward in its efforts to draw Black Catholics and African Americans to the Faith with a mission that both welcomes new worshippers and engages inactive ones. ...
The Portland-based Catholic Sentinel and El Centinela newspapers will close Oct. 1, reflecting a national transition in Catholic communications, according to a news release issued jointly July 21 by the Archdiocese of Portland and Oregon ...
Archbishop Marco Tin Win of Mandalay has called for human dignity and property to be respected following attacks on civilians in several villages by Myanmar's military junta. "I am deeply disheartened to learn about the suffering ...
Australian Cardinal George Pell and the Archdiocese of Melbourne are being sued by the father of a choirboy that the former Vatican official was accused of molesting, resulting in his imprisonment in 2018. The conviction of ...
