The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference called for a special collection to bolster the Catholic Church’s response to a deepening humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip as the Israel-Hamas ...

The beatification cause for Sister Annella Zervas, a Benedictine sister from Minnesota, will formally begin this fall, Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of Crookston, Minnesota, announced Aug. 20. Bishop ...

The visit to Lebanon could be part of a trip Pope Leo said he hopes to make to Turkey in late November. In July, Pope Leo had told a Catholic-Orthodox pilgrimage from the United States that he had ...

Pope Leo XIV asked Catholics to observe Aug. 22 as a day of prayer and fasting for peace and justice, particularly in Ukraine and in the Holy Land. At the end of his general audience Aug. 20, the pope ...

He called for unity in bringing a just end to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which continues attacks initiated in 2014 and which has been declared a genocide in two joint reports from the ...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency tasked with enforcing laws prohibiting discrimination in hiring and employment, said Aug. 18 it has taken “robust” actions to prevent ...