The Milan Archdiocese marked the formal end of the diocesan phase of the sainthood cause of Msgr. Luigi Giussani, founder of the Communion and Liberation movement. His case now advances to the Vatican.
As immigration enforcement intensified this winter, Minneapolis organizers and parishioners navigated fear, exhaustion and moral responsibility. The trauma, they said, transformed churches, families and neighborhoods.
Pope Leo XIV is sending another Catholic leader who has spoken out for migrants to President Trump's adopted home state. The pope named Capuchin Fr. Emilio Biosca Agüero as the third bishop of Venice, Florida.
Priests, bishops, parish leaders and immigration rights advocates from 10 dioceses gathered at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit to discuss the Church's prophetic witness regarding the debates surrounding immigration and the impact current federal policy has had on immigrant communities over the past two years.
Pope Leo XIV's brother Augustinians and others from the Chicago-area looked back with gratitude on the past year since the election of one of their own at a special Mass May 8.
President Donald Trump said May 11 he plans to discuss the imprisonment of Jimmy Lai during his upcoming visit to China; however, he suggested the prominent Catholic and pro-democracy campaigner "caused a lot of bedlam."
The land targeted by the federal government is at the base of Mount Cristo Rey, a mountain and pilgrimage site topped by a 29-foot-tall limestone statue of Jesus Christ.
A recently passed bill decriminalizing suicide in Virginia has been championed by many as overdue relief for families of those who have died by suicide, but it also raises questions from a Catholic ethical perspective.
Bishop Michael Bransfield, who retired in 2018 as head of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston amid multiple allegations of grave sexual and financial misconduct, died May 7 at age 82.
