The Catholic church is refusing to cooperate with a Washington state investigation into whether it unlawfully used charitable trust funds to cover up sexual abuse by priests, Attorney General Bob Ferguson said Thursday, asking a court to force the Seattle Archdiocese to turn over decades of records.
A Catholic school in North Carolina had the right to fire a gay teacher who announced his marriage on social media a decade ago, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, reversing a judge's earlier decision.
Fr. Peter Abue, a priest in Ogoja in Nigeria's southern Cross River State, is trying to improve the lives of children in marginalized communities through education with the Children of Rural Africa initiative.
More than 100 Catholics and allies attended a gathering at "Women & Synodality: Where Do We Go From Here?", held at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University from May 3-4.
At a recent virtual gathering, ministry leaders in the United States and Latin American countries talked about ways to forge paths for "pastoral juvenil," or ministry with Hispanic youth and young adults.
More than 2,500 Catholic bishops, priests, women religious, academics, laypeople and Catholic groups have called for a cease-fire in Gaza in a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden and other world leaders.
The diocesan priest named in a controversy over damage to a Vatican II altar in Cleveland was on leave from the priesthood for a decade following allegations of sexual abuse, before being reinstated to ministry in 2012.
St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Brooklyn is located near an encampment with about 2,000 migrants. Amid the ongoing debate on immigration, the parish works to help the migrants and live out its social justice mission.
