Brian Fraga

 As the 2024 election season winds down, Catholic votes from Pennsylvania, the largest of the battleground states, remain a tossup.

Describing himself as "a longtime supporter" of the Catholic Church, former President Donald Trump cast himself as a champion of religion in a short interview with Raymond Arroyo of EWTN.

The poll also finds that Black and Hispanic Catholics are more likely to identify racial justice and equality as important issues, to support abortion rights and describe themselves as allies of the LGBTQ movement.

After the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual Charter School was unconstitutional, the school's attorneys are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in, claiming First Amendment rights.

"Behind all this there are people who simply hate my community," said Alejandro Bermúdez, a Peruvian Catholic journalist and combative conservative media influencer who was expelled from the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae.

In a vice presidential debate marked by civility and focused on policy, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and U.S. Sen. JD Vance tussled on questions pertaining to immigration, abortion rights, foreign policy and the economy. 

Ahead of indictment, federal investigators issued a subpoena at a Brooklyn Catholic parish inquiring into Msgr. Jamie Gigantiello's business dealings with the mayor's former chief of staff. 

A series of ads running in swing states claim a vote for Kamala Harris is "a vote for medical experiments on kids." The campaign by the right-wing nonprofit CatholicVote has been criticized by LGBTQ advocacy groups.

Former President Donald Trump has softened his position on abortion, angering some pro-life activists. Experts say he is trying to appeal to moderate and independent voters who could decide what is expected to be a close election.  

Less than two months before Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump sparred over the economy, abortion and immigration in their first presidential debate Sept. 10.

A new report by the Public Religion Research Institute shows that as the U.S. has become more racially and ethnically diverse, the percentage of white Christians has declined more than 15% since 2013.

Network Advocates for Catholic Social Justice have issued an 18-page resource in response to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's policy document for a future Republican presidential administration.

The Coalition to Save Catholic Health Care urged the Boston Archdiocese not to sell a chain of hospitals to a for-profit company in 2010. Now that company has filed for bankruptcy and the hospitals are again being sold off.

The American Civil Liberties Union did not challenge a May 8 federal appeals court ruling that upheld a North Carolina Catholic school's decision in 2014 to fire a teacher who announced plans to marry his same-sex partner.

When Joe Biden leaves the Oval Office, so, too, will a Catholic commander-in-chief who always carried a rosary in his pocket, and arranged his public schedule to attend Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation.

An Oklahoma state school board said its contract with St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Catholic Charter School could be reinstated if the Oklahoma Supreme Court reverses its decision or if its ruling is overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The apostolic nuncio announced Aug. 5 that Bishop Richard Henning of Providence, Rhode Island, will replace Cardinal Sean O'Malley, who recently turned 80, as archbishop of Boston. Henning said his first job will be to listen, particularly to abuse survivors and those who left the church over its response to the crisis. 

Among clergy abuse survivors, the reasons that keep them away from church go beyond beliefs or understandings about the real presence. Those complex factors are interwoven with feelings of betrayal, disillusionment and trauma.

The Napa Institute's annual summer gathering in 2024 struck a more conciliatory tone than in past years, when culture war issues such as abortion, LGBTQ rights and modern secularism were often emphasized.

Bishop Andrew Cozzens announced that, along with another pilgrimage in 2025, the next National Eucharistic Congress could be held in 2033, marking the 2,000th anniversary of Jesus' passion, death and resurrection.