Aleja Hertzler-McCain

At age 47, Bishop-designate Thomas Hennen will be the youngest bishop leading a U.S. diocese. Hennen's ministry to LGBTQ+ people has seen mixed reactions about his pastoral approach.

As the so-called One Big, Beautiful Bill made its way toward congressional approval last month, U.S. Catholic bishops signed their names to not one but two letters to senators on the same day, both airing misgivings. The existence of dueling letters, church observers say, offered a rare public glimpse of a rift that's been years in the making.

As the archbishop threads the needle between two leadership roles that have never been held by the same man, he has shied away from publicly criticizing President Donald Trump, even when issuing statements critical of Trump administration actions on Iran or mass deportations.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops took a firm but mixed approach to the bill, while other Catholic leaders signed an interfaith letter asking senators to oppose the bill.

In the days after Pope Leo XIV's election, his eldest brother's past posts supporting President Donald Trump got media attention, not only for Louis Prevost's allegiance to MAGA, but also for content that included slurs and conspiracy theories.

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests is raising concerns about several cardinals who are being discussed as papabili, or potential popes.

While congressional co-sponsors are all Catholic, the Religious Workforce Protection Act has substantial support from a variety of religious leaders, including evangelical Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews and Episcopalians.

Speaking during an emergency hearing Tuesday in Seattle, U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead agreed with a suggestion by lawyers representing faith-based refugee resettlement organizations that the government produce a "status report" regarding an injunction issued last week that should have restarted the refugee admissions program.

More than 300 faith communities have lost access to grant funds that were intended to plant trees in disadvantaged urban communities, environmental faith leaders who managed the grants told RNS.

Over two decades, Catholic dioceses, eparchies and men’s religious communities spent more than $5 billion on allegations of sexual abuse of minors, according to a new report released Wednesday (Jan. 15) by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University.

On Monday, the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, and the multifaith community organizing group Faith in Action held a day of prayer and dialogue with immigrant families at St. Lucy’s Catholic Church.

Protecting parishioners from deportation has become a theme in the ministry of several Catholic leaders at the border.

According to Sister Norma Pimentel, she and Bishop Daniel Flores share an emphasis on a pastoral approach.

On the first day of the bishops’ recent meeting in Baltimore, Bishop Daniel Thomas — who was elected last fall to lead their Committee on Pro-Life Activities and began his three-year term on Nov. 13 —  sat down with RNS for an interview.

The host country for the annual summit has come under international scrutiny for human rights and religious freedom violations, leading some activists to question why there has not been more pushback from the global climate advocates, including faith organizations.

Trump has made inroads into the Latino community's solid support for Democratic candidates, but remarks made at a rally at Madison Square Garden may cause some to rethink.

"If we don’t learn how to speak to our children, well, then, we’re going to continue on the same path, and we’re going to continue to lose them," Espaillat warned.

The survey also found that Francis’ popularity has dropped throughout Latin America in the last decade, though significant majorities of Latin American Catholics still view him favorably.

Many trend pieces about Latino voters claim that there has been a significant spike in the Latino evangelical population. However, that narrative doesn’t bear out in the polling. Instead, religious disaffiliation is chipping away at the Catholic base, as religiously unaffiliated Latinos are seeing the largest growth of any faith category among Latinos.

Catholic leaders throughout the Americas are expressing grief and outrage at the killing of Juan Antonio López, a Honduran environmental activist and local Catholic leader, in Tocoa, in northeastern Honduras, on Saturday (Sept. 14). López, described by friends as his local bishop’s right-hand man, was shot dead by several men as he left church Saturday night, according to Reuters.