With just two months to go until a high-stakes Vatican summit on the global clerical sex abuse crisis, organizers have asked heads of bishops’ conferences to prepare for the gathering by meeting with survivors to understand the gravity of the harm caused.

According to a new report released by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), executions in the United States are at a historic low. For the fourth consecutive year, there have been fewer than 30 executions and 50 death sentences.

Pro-life leaders said they were disappointed the U.S. Supreme Court declined Dec. 10 to hear appeals from Kansas and Louisiana on lower court rulings that have stopped the states from blocking Medicaid funds going to Planned Parenthood.

To find Catholics who have left the church, start looking at the faces in the pews, according to a recent report.

The Peace Light from Bethlehem, a flame kindled in Bethlehem, West Bank, where Christ was born, was delivered in lanterns to members of the Catholic Committee on Scouting for the Diocese of Brooklyn, at JFK International Airport Dec. 1.

Less than two months after serving as delegate in the Bishops Synod on Youth which called women’s leadership within the Church “a duty of justice,” Bishop Frank Caggiano has established a new leadership model in a Connecticut parish, appointing a woman to serve as parish life coordinator.

Without realizing it, when Pope Francis used the metaphor of a “field hospital” in his first interview to express the Church’s mission of healing the wounded, he immediately made Sister Carol Keehan’s work a lot easier.