Cardinal Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, SVD, president of Caritas Internationalis, urged Caritas Asia workers to stand at the side of the poor and to help build a synodal Church, addressing the Caritas Asia Regional Conference and…
The New York state Legislature passed a bill that replaces the words “mother” and “father” in some state laws with gender-neutral language, a move that New York’s bishops say will further “muddy what is true…
ORLANDO, Florida — A prominent Catholic academic urged a gathering of the U.S. bishops to take a more assertive role in ensuring that Catholic universities live out their distinctively religious mission. Santiago Schnell, the provost…
Daniel IbanezPope Leo XIV venerates a 12th-century wooden sculpture of Mary with the Child Jesus in the Abbey of Montserrat, outside of Barcelona, Spain, on June 10, 2026. After visiting a prison, Pope Leo headed…
Pope Leo XIV has called for greater respect for the elderly, affirming that their fragility still has much to teach humanity today. In a letter sent via the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin,…
Philippine bishops have appealed for donations to help people affected by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Mindanao in the southern Philippines that left thousands displaced and communities struggling to recover. The June 8…
Texas Catholics are preparing to welcome fans from around the world as the 2026 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament officially begins this week. The Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, the Diocese of Fort Worth, and the Diocese…
Participants at the Project Oxygen Teen Peace Summit in Rome on June 2, 2026. Forty teenagers from war-torn countries recently took part in the Project Oxygen Teen Peace Summit.
Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, a neuroscientist and senior ethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, drew attention to ethical concerns with these experiments. Genetic researchers are experimenting on unborn children in trials that could have been…
MADRID – Prior to Pope Leo XIV’s departure for Spain, much hype was made of the fact that the pontiff’s visit coincided with a 10-day stop in the city by Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny,…