Brian Roewe

Trump's trade war has not dented farmer support for him. Meanwhile, outside rural corners, issues like health care and tax cuts are factoring into Iowa's 1st District race.

Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley, who had opened an inquiry into St. John Seminary in August, announced Oct. 11 that investigation will now include reviews of Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary and Redemptoris Mater Seminary.

Catholics who work on the climate change issue say the world has "a moral and ethical imperative to act," following the release of a major report that foresees a global climate crisis.

Bishop Frank Caggiano of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a U.S. delegate bishop for the upcoming synod on young people, said the church must demonstrate what it believes in how it responds to the abuse crisis.

A court approved the $210 million settlement between the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese and 400-plus abuse survivors, one of the final steps in a nearly four-year bankruptcy process.

Days before allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh went public, the Knights' Supreme Council urged its membership to contact their senators to support Kavanaugh's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court.

After several tumultuous years and shakeups in leadership, the 30-year-old organization is turning a new page and focusing on prevention and increasing its reach.

The three-day event will highlight achievements to date in implementing the Paris Agreement and aims to push the global community to "take ambition to the next level," the theme of the gathering. 

Former nuncio denies wrongdoing after Twin Cities auxiliary's account appears to corroborate reports of Viganò's intervention in 2014 inquiry into claims of sexual misconduct by Archbishop Nienstedt.

The Irish bishops' conference announced Aug. 24 that the divestment process will remove from its financial holdings the top 200 oil and gas companies within a five-year period.

To the 2012 "Vatileaks" and other controversies that have enwrapped Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano in recent years have been added the release and reaction to the publication Aug. 26 of an 11-page letter from the 77-year-old prelate that accuses dozens of high-level church officials of a sex-abuse cover-up over allegations against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

Catholic groups voiced dismay and disagreement with a proposed rule from the Trump administration to weaken regulations on carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants that in the process could result in 1,400 more premature deaths annually. 

Accusations of sexual abuse and misconduct by former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and within several U.S. seminaries have rematerialized past charges placing gay priests and homosexuality at the root of the church's escalating crisis.

The head of the U.S. bishops said they will invite the Vatican to conduct an apostolic visitation to the country to lead a "full investigation" into questions still surrounding revelations of sexual abuse by former cardinal Archbishop Theodore McCarrick.

Two dioceses are under scrutiny following a series of online allegations that include illicit sexual behavior and alcohol abuse among seminarians and by those overseeing their development.

Testimonials and studies fostered conversations throughout the annual assembly of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, which focused on the upcoming synod on young people.

St. Louis - At St. Alphonsus Liguori "Rock" Church, leaders of men's religious orders listened to and talked with activists for racial justice during "a very transformational time."

During their May 2017 meeting, the pope presented President Trump with his environmental encyclical. Days later, a pastoral worker started an 11-month task: tweeting Trump each of the text's 246 paragraphs.

After a flurry of leadership resignations, members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests gathered for their annual conference, and continued to navigate the advocacy group's transition.

Abuse survivor Juan Carlos Cruz recalls a "crazy year" — traveling with other survivors to the Vatican, receiving Francis' apology face-to-face, and more — at SNAP's annual conference in Chicago.