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The Church of the Gesu, Milwaukee, WI.

Mass return: Wisconsin dioceses lift Sunday dispensation

Sep 1, 2020

Catholics living in Wisconsin will once again be required to go to Mass on Sunday, provided they are healthy and... Read more

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, pictured in St. Peter's Basilica Oct. 3, 2015.

Cardinal Parolin stresses ‘spiritual consonance’ between Pope Francis and Benedict XVI

Sep 1, 2020

By Courtney Mares

Cardinal Pietro Parolin has written an introduction to a book describing the continuity between Pope Francis and his predecessor Pope... Read more

UK eyes making at-home medical abortion permissions permanent

Sep 1, 2020

A temporary measure allowing UK women up to 10 weeks pregnant to take both abortion pills at home following a... Read more

President Donald Trump speaks at the 2020 March for Life. CNA file photo.

Trump campaign adds 'unborn life' to second term priorities list

Sep 1, 2020

The Trump campaign has added bullet points concerning abortion and religious freedom to its list of second-term priorities, along with... Read more

Downside Abbey in Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset, England.

Abbot: monks are leaving historic Benedictine abbey in ‘very positive spirit’

Sep 1, 2020

An English Benedictine community’s decision to leave their home for the past two centuries will allow members to focus on... Read more

Former vice president Joe Biden campaigns in 2016.

Biden cites JPII in speech, despite continued abortion support

Sep 1, 2020

Former vice president Joe Biden invoked Pope St. John Paul II during a campaign speech on Monday, in which he urged... Read more

Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz.

Catholic archbishop blocked at Belarus border calls for prayers

Sep 1, 2020

A Catholic archbishop appealed for prayers Tuesday, a day after he was blocked from entering Belarus by border guards.   Read more

Pope Francis pictured in St. Peter’s Square March 16, 2016.

Pope Francis says pandemic is ‘a wake-up call’ to care for creation

Sep 1, 2020

By Courtney Mares

Pope Francis released a message Tuesday for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation in which he... Read more

Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz, pictured in Kraków, Poland, March 4, 2016.

Cardinal Dziwisz: heed St. John Paul II’s appeal for peace on World War II anniversary

Sep 1, 2020

The world needs once again to hear St. John Paul II’s appeal for an end to war, Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz... Read more

Eden Invitation pitch for the OSV Challenge. Screenshot.

Podcasts, new LGBT ministry win big at Catholic entrepreneurship competition 

Sep 1, 2020

By Jonah McKeown

Several Catholic entrepreneurs this week were awarded $100,000 each as investment in project ideas “that will make a profound impact... Read more

The USCCB autumn general assembly in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 11, 2019.

USCCB November meeting will be virtual, bishops announce

Aug 31, 2020

The U.S. bishops’ conference will conduct its November general assembly virtually, the bishops announced Friday, in light of the coronavirus... Read more

Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB.

Philosophy professor details Fr Rosica's plagiarism while ghostwriting for cardinal

Aug 31, 2020

One chapter of a recently published book on academic plagiarism discusses at length the plagiarism committed by Fr. Thomas Rosica,... Read more

Catholic Charities supports victims of Hurricane Laura

Aug 31, 2020

By Perry West

After Hurricane Laura struck states along the Gulf of Mexico last week, Catholic Charities and other groups have provided aid... Read more

Philippines flag.

Bishop cautions against martial law in Philippines after bombings

Aug 31, 2020

Following twin bombings in a southern region of the Philippines, a local bishop is asking the government not to impose... Read more

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone during a June 27 prayer service in Golden Gate Park.

San Francisco archbishop calls on mayor to end 'excessive limits' on outdoor Mass

Aug 31, 2020

In a letter to San Francisco Mayor London Breed and other city officials, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone on Monday called on... Read more

Pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong's Victoria Park, June 2019.

Hong Kong diocese cancels pro-democracy prayer in newspapers

Aug 31, 2020

The Diocese of Hong Kong has intervened to cancel a Catholic pro-democracy ad campaign and prayer that was set to... Read more

Virgin of Tears / Photo: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Weeping Madonna of Syracuse commemorated in Sicily

Aug 31, 2020

In an August 29 Mass offered by Archbishop Salvatore Pappalardo, the archdiocese of Syracuse on the Italian island of Sicily... Read more

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia.

Archbishop Paglia: Catholic politicians cannot protect or promote abortion

Aug 31, 2020

The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life said Saturday that Catholic politicians should not promote legal protections of any... Read more

Socially distanced bishops attend the Polish bishops’ plenary assembly at Jasna Góra, Aug. 27-29, 2020.

Polish bishops concerned by rise in acts of desecration

Aug 31, 2020

Poland’s bishops expressed concern Saturday about a rise in acts of desecration.  Read more

Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz prays outside of the Akrestsin Street pre-trial detention center in Minsk, Belarus, Aug. 19.

Border guards stop Catholic archbishop from returning to Belarus

Aug 31, 2020

Border guards blocked a Catholic archbishop from returning to Belarus Monday.   Read more