Young Latinos activism for immigrant rights over the past few months has put a spotlight on their importance for the future of the Catholic Church in the United States.

As Jesus said, what is hidden will be made known. This moment feels like that kind of revelation. It is an invitation to tell the truth, and to resist the temptation to protect legacies at the expense of people.

As he continues to shape his inner circle at the Vatican, Leo appears inclined to bypass traditional channels of information and hear firsthand accounts on the state of the church, even from its critics.

The bishops of the Eastern Catholic Churches in the U.S. have issued "a cry for peace and justice," as they are "anguished" by atrocities and suffering in the nations where their respective communities originated.

Chairmen of several USCCB committees wrote in a letter to key House lawmakers that they support a bill that would establish an effort to investigate and document the histories and practices of Indian boarding schools, and their long-term effects on Native American peoples.

Pope Leo XIV declared Fr. Edward Flanagan, the founder of Boys Town, venerable on March 23, recognizing his heroic virtue and moving him one step closer to sainthood.

Catholic dioceses and organizations are canceling events and rethinking initiatives honoring the late civil rights icon César Chávez, following newly reported allegations the activist — who publicly drew on his Catholic faith in his work — sexually abused several women and girls.

"Many are realizing that the soul of MAGA is viscerally anti-Catholic and racist, not to mention pagan in its pessimism, and it's time to jump off the bandwagon," said Austen Ivereigh.

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Sisters and congregational lay representatives praised the 70th session of the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women for highlighting the continued challenges women face in achieving gender equality.

Making three ceremonial knocks on the center doors of Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bishop John Bonnici signaled his desired entrance into the building — and, more significantly, his new designation as leader of the Rochester Diocese.

Clergy will be allowed to minister to immigrants in a holding facility at the headquarters of the Trump administration's enforcement surge in Minnesota, a federal judge ruled March 21.

Archbishop-designate James Golka, bishop of Colorado Springs since 2021, has the potential to unify Denver's 600,000 Catholics. He will be installed March 25.

The president's energy policy "has left the country unprepared for his war," Thomas Reese writes.

A hidden cloister just a few steps from Rome's Pantheon is a peaceful place for silent meditation — if the millions of tourists who trudge past even know it's there.

"We cannot remain silent in the face of the suffering of so many people — defenseless victims of these conflicts," Leo underlined. "What wounds them wounds all of humanity. The death and pain caused by these wars are a scandal for the entire human family, and a cry that rises to God."

Though not an official status, in South America "women's diaconate already exists as a daily service and as a baptismal vocation," said Fr. José Luís Loyola, president of CLAR.

Pentecostal preacher Paula White-Cain, Trump's longtime adviser, is senior adviser of Trump's White House Faith Office and Jennifer Korn is its faith director.

A civil war has broken out in the MAGA coalition between traditionalist Catholics and evangelical Christians. The major disagreement? American support of Israel.

As we move toward celebrating the holiest week of our liturgical year, God continues to say, "If only you believe, you will experience my death transforming glory, my life-giving Spirit, my future."

A record number of people — 900 — will be baptized, receive the Eucharist and be confirmed in the Catholic Church at Easter Vigil Masses on April 4 in the Diocese of Richmond.

Once a young teenager wearing a cap and gown for his eighth-grade graduation photo in Chicago, today the famous former-student posed for a reunion picture wearing his papal zucchetto and cassock at the Vatican.

Protestant and Catholic clergy are asking a federal judge to order that they be allowed to minister to immigrants in a holding facility at the headquarters of the Trump administration's enforcement surge in Minnesota.

Since becoming defense secretary, Pete Hegseth has found no shortage of ways to bring his strand of conservative evangelicalism into the Pentagon.

The event was co-sponsored by the Fertility Education and Medical Management Foundation, a U.S.-based group that created an app that encourages women to track their cycles.

Israeli authorities closed Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher as part of wider closures for security concerns, beginning Feb. 28, when Israel and the United States launched attacks against Iran.

A new national survey from the Public Religion Research Institute finds that broad public support for LGBTQ rights remains strong but uneven across political, religious and geographic lines.

Latino leaders and community groups quickly condemned the alleged abuse by Chavez but emphasized that the farmworker movement was never just about a single man.

The transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international companies that plan to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America is complete, but a group of Apache women is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene as a last-ditch effort to stop the project.

The movement that mobilized a nation on behalf of farmworkers is a movement that like all movements depends on the sacrifices of a great many. Not the charisma or power of a single individual.

No one would likely have predicted Dominican Sr. Amelia Hueller's future path when she was a girl in Stillwater — least of all the sister herself.

A tragic incident involving the rescue of an altar boy occurred March 13 during a Lenten retreat in the coastal town of General Villamil Playas, in Ecuador's Guayas province.

A Nebraska bishop is calling for prayer as that state battles what are believed to be the worst wildfires in its recorded history, which have killed at least one person.

At Mater Christi Human Development and Religious Formation Centre, recovery goes beyond abstinence from drugs. Structure, faith, therapy and skills training prepare clients for life beyond the center's gates.

An Arkansas law requiring that the Ten Commandments be prominently displayed in public school classrooms was struck down by a federal judge Monday.

Ordinations of priests and deacons have been halted in four Nicaraguan dioceses, aggravating a shortage of priests as the Sandinista regime continues its suffocation of the Catholic Church.

Pope Leo XIV has called the presidents of the world's bishops' conferences to Rome for an October 2026 summit aimed at assessing how the Catholic Church engages with families in a rapidly changing world.

The federations of Catholic bishops for Latin America, Asia and Africa have endorsed an international initiative to develop a global treaty to transition the world away from fossil fuels.

Ecclesiastical disobedience is not to be taken lightly nor used as justification for selfish interest. But as Francis of Assisi's life bears witness, there may be times when one has to choose the Gospel above all else.

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa said the use of God's name to justify war is a grave sin, stressing that God is present with those who suffer and die in conflict, not with those who exploit religion for political ends.

States have a moral obligation to develop universal health care systems, Pope Leo XIV said, stating that "health cannot be a luxury for the few."

Across the world, countless sisters live lives that will never be publicly recognized as heroic. Yet it is precisely in this ordinariness that holiness continues to take shape.

When Anthropic refused to renew its $200 million contract with the Department of Defense, what the AI company held were not corporate policy preferences. They were moral absolutes. And the church has already said so.

If the bishops had listened to the many Catholics who raised the alarm about Trump early on, we might have avoided our current disastrous national trajectory. Their belated response is also a failure of synodality.

Amira Musallam leads a movement to shield civilians from violence without weapons. But the environment surrounding that work has grown more volatile as the regional war widens and the situation in the West Bank deteriorates.

The Vatican released on Monday details of Pope Leo XIV's upcoming four-nation Africa tour, suggesting Christian-Muslim relations, comforting victims of violence and encouraging the Catholic community in former European colonies will be key themes.

Journalist and author Gareth Gore shares what he said during his audience with Pope Leo XIV March 16: "By putting on record what information I shared with the pope in the meeting, nobody can now turn around and say: Well, we didn't know."

As the Trump administration continues its immigration crackdown, advocates from across the nation gathered in Arizona to discuss pastoral strategies for understanding and applying Church teaching to mass deportations.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced late March 16 that it will hear oral arguments in April on whether the Trump administration can end a program temporarily shielding eligible Haitians living in the U.S. from deportation.

A friends of the court brief outlines opposition to mass surveillance and eliminating human oversight of autonomous weapons.