Nearly two years after the Supreme Court overturned its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision making abortion a constitutional right, a majority of Americans said they support legal abortion in all or most cases, according to a new study from the Pew Research
A June 7 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruled that hundreds of thousands of immigrants with a temporary immigration status cannot apply for a more permanent way to remain in the country if they first entered without authority to do so.
The unanimous ruling
Ahead of the bishops' spring assembly, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington has appointed Father Jorge Torres, a priest of the Diocese of Orlando, Florida, to help implement a planned multiyear National Eucharistic Revival.
Msgr. Jeffrey D. Burrill, USCCB general secretary,
Not a day goes by that identical twins Luke and Ben Daghir don't get confused for each other.
It's probably even more confusing now since Luke and Ben, both graduate seminarians, wear black shirts with white clerical collars.
"We've gotten so used to it,
You could say Cardinal Justin Rigali has had an altar seat to Catholic Church history.
From his youth in Los Angeles to assisting at the Second Vatican Council to a stint in Madagascar to serving four popes, and to being the shepherd of
After hearing the story of a Salvadoran immigrant and her plight to leave her home country, bishops from the U.S., Central America and Mexico meeting in Mundelein June 2 turned to a camera facing a woman identified as Maria Antonia.
Even though she
Prayers, the kind only a child can make, were on display on a table of pleas written by migrant children near a small statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, as bishops from the U.S., Mexico and Central America gathered June 1 in
A group of Catholic evolutionary biologists, astrochemists, astrophysicists, theologians and astronomers will gather in Washington, D.C., this weekend to discuss a topical scientific issue in high-level government circles: Extraterrestrials, advanced alien civilizations and UFOs. The conference is “quite timely” said Stephen M.
Based on responses to a questionnaire sent to all U.S. dioceses, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate estimates there are about 19,000 deacons in the United States today.
The number, though, is dropping, mirroring trends seen in religious life and the
Ahead of a May 30 ecumenical prayer service to recall the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, Bishop David A. Konderla said it was important "to pause and reflect on how such an unspeakable horror could take place so that we can avoid
In addressing ‘Eucharistic coherence,’ bishops aim to tackle a problem that is bigger than Joe Biden
In a new analysis, Russell Shaw looks ahead to the upcoming general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, during which the bishops are set to discuss a document on “Eucharistic coherence” that sprung forth from the controversy surrounding President Joe