The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference called for a special collection to bolster the Catholic Church’s response to a deepening humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip as the Israel-Hamas ...

The visit to Lebanon could be part of a trip Pope Leo said he hopes to make to Turkey in late November. In July, Pope Leo had told a Catholic-Orthodox pilgrimage from the United States that he had ...

Pope Leo XIV asked Catholics to observe Aug. 22 as a day of prayer and fasting for peace and justice, particularly in Ukraine and in the Holy Land. At the end of his general audience Aug. 20, the pope ...

The beatification cause for Sister Annella Zervas, a Benedictine sister from Minnesota, will formally begin this fall, Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of Crookston, Minnesota, announced Aug. 20. Bishop ...

He called for unity in bringing a just end to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which continues attacks initiated in 2014 and which has been declared a genocide in two joint reports from the ...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency tasked with enforcing laws prohibiting discrimination in hiring and employment, said Aug. 18 it has taken “robust” actions to prevent ...

Pope Leo XIV blesses rosaries and greets pilgrims inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Aug. 20, 2025, after his weekly ...

Early on the promise was made to Abraham. God told him he would make of him a “great nation” ( Genesis 12:2). “Look toward ...

Pope Leo XIV paid a private visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Grace of Mentorella, high in the Monti Prenestini mountain ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet in the Oval Office of the White House in ...

“Unnecessary raids, mass detentions, and family separations betray the values of our nation and the Gospel,” they wrote in a ...

The Alaska summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held on Aug. 15 has ultimately failed ...