L: St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music; at right, top to bottom: St. Francis of Assisi, St. Thomas Aquinas and St. John Henry Newman COMMENTARY: St. Cecilia may be the patron of music, but… Singing With the Saints

ROME — Pope Leo XIV on Saturday accepted the resignation of an ailing Spanish bishop who is under church investigation for allegedly sexually abusing a young seminarian in the 1990s, the first known time the… Pope Leo XIV accepts resignation of Spanish bishop accused of abuse in first known case for pontiff

Rnrivas, CC BY-SA 4.0Mary Help of Christians Basilica on the campus of Belmont Abbey College. Talley will assume the position of the college’s 21st president on Jan. 2, 2026.

Vatican MediaPope Leo XIV visits the tomb of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy, on Nov. 20, 2025. Pope Leo XIV also traveled to the city of Montefalco, where he celebrated Mass in the monastery of… Pope Leo XIV Prays at Tomb of St. Francis of Assisi

ADF InternationalReem Alsalem (right), the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, opposes surrogacy at an Oct. 9, 2025, U.N. event hosted by the Italian government. Alsalem called for member states to… European Parliament Discusses Harms of Surrogacy After EU Condemns the Practice

ROME — Pope Leo XIV fixed a technical glitch on Friday in a Vatican law that became problematic after Pope Francis named the first-ever woman to head the Vatican City State administration. Leo amended the 2023… Pope tweaks a law allowing a woman to head the Vatican City State, months after a nun was appointed

Maxx Studio McGovern, who is Catholic, said the U.S. needs to protect religious freedom at home first for its position to carry real weight. Brownback cited a report listing 10 Catholic bishops detained by the… China’s ‘Assault On Religious Freedom’ Threatens U.S., Congressional Commission Told

Centuries of church schisms show that if there’s a doctrine to be fought over, there’s a good chance Christians will fight about it. That repeated splintering is what makes the Council of Nicaea — a… 1,700 years ago, bishops and an emperor wrote a creed

Kathleen Murphy/CNASister of Mercy JoAnn Persch, a longtime immigrant rights advocate, died on Nov. 14, 2025, at age 91. Sister Persch and Sister Pat Murphy were founding members of the Su Casa Catholic Worker House… Immigrant Rights Advocate Mercy Sister JoAnn Persch, 91, Dies

Roughly a third of all Catholic clergy ordained in England and Wales over the past three decades have come from the Anglican Communion, a new report launched Thursday in London shows, giving for the first… Report: Roughly 1/3 of Catholic clergy ordained in Britain 1992-2024 come from Anglicanism