Camillo Barone

 "One of the most exciting things for me is to be basically on the cutting edge of what it means to be a church in the 21st century," said Fr. Charles Kieffer, vicar for synodality and planning.

Catholic bishops, clergy, religious sisters, congressional representatives, political pundits and foreign heads of state were among those who condemned Trump's statements.

Reports say that Pentagon officials lectured Cardinal Christophe Pierre during a January meeting because of the pope's anti-war comments. Pierre was apostolic nuncio to the U.S.: What does that diplomatic role entail?

A federal judge has ordered immigration authorities to allow the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership and clergy access to an immigration detention center in Broadview, Illinois, during Holy Week.

"We do not gather as 'them' and 'us,' " the prelate said. "It's simply us together, todos, todos, todos, everyone together."

Pope Leo XIV has named a trio of Catholic academics and the head of a church-based center for migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border to be among the new members of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

With one of the busiest immigration courts in the country, San Francisco is struggling to clear a backlog exceeding 118,000 cases. For St. Ignatius Parish and the three immigrant families it supports, it's personal.

Other major Catholic universities offer different financial aid plans to make college affordable for lower-income students. 

The event was co-sponsored by the Fertility Education and Medical Management Foundation, a U.S.-based group that created an app that encourages women to track their cycles.

A new national survey from the Public Religion Research Institute finds that broad public support for LGBTQ rights remains strong but uneven across political, religious and geographic lines.

Amira Musallam leads a movement to shield civilians from violence without weapons. But the environment surrounding that work has grown more volatile as the regional war widens and the situation in the West Bank deteriorates.

For Lebanon's Catholic communities — many of them concentrated in towns near the Israeli border — the renewed violence has revived fears that echo earlier conflicts in the country's long history of war.

The medal recognizes what organizers described as the pontiff's lifelong advocacy for religious liberty and freedom of conscience — principles embedded in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, sparing the 75-year-old inmate from a scheduled execution on March 12.

As war spreads across the Middle East following the conflict that erupted Feb. 28 between the United States, Israel and Iran, a senior Iranian cleric has turned to Pope Leo XIV.

Bishop Paolo Martinelli, based in Abu Dhabi, finds himself guiding a church that must navigate pastoral life amid geopolitical shock waves. The church itself has had to adapt, he told NCR in a recent interview.

Catholic pilgrims visiting the Holy Land have been stranded in Israel and the West Bank after the rapid escalation of hostilities between the U.S., Israel and Iran triggered widespread airspace closures across the Middle East.

On Ash Wednesday, three religious crossed into the ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, the first time in months that Catholic leaders had been allowed inside to administer sacraments to detainees.

NCR interviews Fr. René Constanza, whose reelection as president of the Paulist Fathers comes at a moment of both continuity and challenge for one of the most distinctly American Catholic orders.

The bishops' conference issued a stark critique of plans to double federal immigration detention capacity: "The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the conscience of every American."