Two Texas bishops say closing facilities would violate religious freedom
By Rhina Guidos, Catholic News Service The bishops who head the El Paso and Dallas dioceses in Texas have asked Gov. Greg Abbott to…
Pope ‘deeply saddened’ by Baghdad market bombing
By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis expressed his condolences after a suicide bombing in a busy market in…
Advocates: Ruling against DACA must push Congress to act
By Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Catholic immigration advocates are urging Congress and President Joe Biden to speed up legislation to protect…
Traditional Latin Mass ‘movement’ sows division, archbishop says
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis’ letter explaining why he was restricting the use of the pre-Vatican II Mass…
Pope expresses closeness with Cuban people as unrest continues
By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis expressed his closeness to the people of Cuba a week after protests…
First-person accounts of religious repression punctuate summit
By Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Many people may not think about religious repression since it doesn’t happen in the United States….
Appealing to need for unity, pope restores limits on pre-Vatican II Mass
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Saying he was acting for the good of the unity of the Catholic Church, Pope…
U.S. bishops again urge House members to restore Hyde to spending bill
By Julie Asher, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The House Committee on Appropriations is poised to mark up “the most extreme pro-abortion appropriations bill…
Pope released from hospital,
prays at Rome basilica
By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Ten days after undergoing intestinal surgery, Pope Francis was released from Rome’s Gemelli hospital,…
Illinois priest named Bishop of
Covington, succeeds Bishop Foys
WASHINGTON — Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Roger J. Foys of Covington, Kentucky, and named as his successor Father John C….