Amid a perceived rift between the Vatican and the U.S. church, the papal envoy to the United States used his address to American bishops Nov. 14 to highlight what he called the “close relationship” between their ongoing Eucharistic Revival initiative and Pope Francis’ ongoing Synod on Synodality.
In the midst of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, a Catholic immigration group is joining its voice with Democratic lawmakers urging President Joe Biden to allow Palestinians in the United States to stay here during the conflict.
Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, led his brother bishops in a prayer for wisdom as they began their fall plenary assembly in Baltimore Nov. 13 with a Mass for peace.
Five Republican presidential candidates participated in a debate in Miami Nov. 8, reacting to Ohio voters approving a measure that will codify abortion access in the state’s constitution through fetal viability.
A Catholic community of religious sisters who operate a crisis pregnancy center in New York City won a lawsuit against the state’s health department on Nov. 8, with the agency agreeing not to include the community in a probe of other pro-life pregnancy centers.
Ohio voters Nov. 7 approved Issue 1, a measure that will codify abortion access in the state’s constitution through fetal viability, typically understood to be 24 weeks gestation, according to an NBC News projection of the results. The loss marks another electoral defeat for anti-abortion ballot measures in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.
The U.S. military is having trouble recruiting young people, and the problem will grow even more serious unless something is done — and soon — say two Catholic chaplains.
Kerry Alys Robinson, the new president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, the organization dedicated to carrying out the domestic humanitarian work of the Catholic Church in the United States, says its mission isn’t only to be generous, but to inspire generosity in turn.
A Nov. 6 announcement from the U.S. bishops’ conference about next month’s national religious retirement collection came with a chilling warning that a very small percentage of religious communities actually have enough money to care properly for their elderly members.
In a partial legal win for pro-life protesters outside abortion clinics, a federal judge in Minneapolis has allowed a First Amendment challenge to proceed against the city’s 2022 “abortion bubble” ordinance.
