Camillo Barone

"This is no time for the church to exhale": For Catholic immigrant advocates, the sweeping Democratic victories in the Nov. 3 midterms offered a moment of hope, but not necessarily relief.

Amid the Democrats' sweeping victories in the Nov. 3 midterms, Catholic identity remained visible among winners on both sides of the political divide.

On Oct. 28, a delegation stood before the pope in Rome, presenting an album of prayers and messages. It would have seemed improbable a year earlier, when a very different delegation stood before a locked gate outside Chicago.

As the midterms approach, young organizers at six Catholic universities around the U.S. described a tension, ranging from deep anxiety about the country's direction to a growing desire to participate.

As the November midterm elections approach, Catholics across the United States are preparing to pray and keep vigil, asking for peaceful polling places, honest vote-counting, and protection for voters.

A new study by the humanitarian medical organization MedGlobal offers unusually hopeful numbers showing dropping acute malnutrition among children under 5 in Gaza. But "a huge fragility" remains.

Denver Archbishop James Golka argued that advocating for unborn children, immigrants and poor families requires sustained engagement with political leaders, even when church officials disagree with their policies.

The White House identified the 12 Catholic bishops who met and prayed with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office less than two weeks before the midterm elections, while defending his record with Catholic Americans.

Less than two weeks ahead of midterm elections, a group of Catholic bishops joined President Donald Trump at the White House for a prayer meeting in the Oval Office, seen in a video shared on social media.

 The ruling notes that the circumstances helped explain Scott Peyton's motives, but said his decision to formally join the Anglican church was deliberate and schismatic.

Catholics and advocates spoke to NCR about how Trump's aggressive immigration enforcement is creating political tensions ahead of the 2026 midterms.

An unborn child deserves protection, a Catholic professor told Texas Senate candidate James Talarico. "We are to protect that life at all cost," she said. But does that stance ignore the principle of double effect?

Created by Chicago Catholic priests, religious sisters and brothers, "The Immigrant Crosses" installation is a traveling memorial to people who have died in U.S. immigration custody or during enforcement operations.

"The thoracic surgery department at Gemelli is definitely of an excellent standard," said Dr. Barbara Moscatelli. "The pope is in excellent hands."

"These detainees and the priests who serve them have been denied their religious liberties," Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski said. 

"I think we're going to go through a dark night of the soul as a country on this issue," said Dylan Corbett, executive director of the Hope Border Institute. "But I do have a lot of hope."

Chris and Jeffie Hardin, who live in North Carolina, will visit the Vatican's Borgo Laudato Si' to learn more about how to live and teach ways that honor creation. 

For three days, LGBTQ Catholics, clergy, religious, family members and others walked through New York City as pilgrims, tracing a history marked by suffering, ministry, exclusion and perseverance.

As the artificial intelligence boom drives a rapid expansion of data centers across the United States, server facilities are becoming an increasingly visible issue in the 2026 midterm elections.

In brief conversations with journalists during the papal flight from Rome to Paris, Pope Leo XIV also discussed immigration, France's Catholic revival, Blessed Fulton Sheen, Villanova basketball, and happiness.