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George Floyd was an unknown name until he died while being restrained by four police officers in Minneapolis, MN.  Because Floyd was black, and the officer seen restraining him on ...

Luis said he couldn’t tell the doctor what had really happened. It had been several days since he first noticed the blood in his urine and the bruising around his ...

As a Catholic in the U.S. today striving to be faithful, it can seem like a depressing time to be alive. With the coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic impact, the ...

With the exception of a few courageous bishops, most Catholic leaders have remained silent about the mob’s destruction of the statues of the Father of California’s Catholic missions, St. Junipero ...

Pope Francis encouraged Bishop Georg Bätzing, the president of the German Bishops’ Conference, to continue to pursue what is called the Synodal Path in Germany. “I feel strengthened by the ...

Bishop has yanked a priest known for his pro-life work from ministry thanks to threats by LGBT activists. Bishop Robert J. Brennan of the Diocese of Columbus in Ohio announced ...

A lawsuit filed against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Greensburg in western Pennsylvania alleges that a former priest raped and sexually abused a minor for nearly six years. The 25-page ...

Last week we published a column providing Bishop Robert Barron’s response to lay Catholics who were challenging bishops to do more to combat the violence we are witnessing in our ...

On June 19, the statue of St. Junípero Serra fell to angry protesters inside Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. On Saturday, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone visited the park where St ...

Fr. Stephen Schumacher, a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, was among the defenders of a prominent statue of the city’s namesake as protesters called for its removal Saturday ...

Vermont’s Catholic bishop says he’d like to see changes in the church to attract more young people. We told you the diocese plans to close three more churches in Vermont, ...

The Vatican is refusing to hear a Virginia priest’s appeal, owing to canonical technicalities. The Vatican’s Congregation for Clergy (CFC) will not hear an appeal by Fr. Mark White, who is resisting attempts to oust him as ...

From the point of view of hygiene, it is absolutely incomprehensible to us why oral communion has been banned. Twenty-one Austrian doctors have authored a letter appealing their country’s Bishops’ ...

Pope Francis has indicated that he was not impressed with priests who violated coronavirus lockdown rules to minister to the laity. In a speech he delivered Saturday to primarily bishops, ...

U.S. Roman Catholic bishops said Thursday that the church tallied 4,434 sex abuse allegations against clergy in the 2018-19 audit year, triple the number seen the previous year, with much ...

The CEO of Catholic Charities of Eastern Washington released a video late last week expressing solidarity with the Black Lives Matter. “I am a racist, that’s the hard truth,” said ...

Yet another so-called “Catholic” University that serious Catholics should cross off their list. Villanova University recently declared its support for June Pride Month via social media, contrary to its Catholic ...

The Marianist Province of the United States on Wednesday published a list of 43 priests and brothers found to have sexually abused minors in the U.S. since 1950. The list ...

An allegation of sexual abuse of a minor by the Rev. Kevin Lutz, a priest in Columbus and central Ohio for four decades before retiring last year from St. Mary ...

In stark contrast to other bishops, Bishop Hying speaks-out against the mob. As rioters across the United States target statues depicting historical figures, the Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin on Tuesday ...

Thanks to the presence of a small band of Catholics, a “Tear Down Junipero Serra” event in front of Ventura City Hall on Saturday concluded with the bronze statue of ...