Israel’s most recent strikes killed more than 300 people in Lebanon and more than 1,700 have died since the start of the war, prompting the bishop’s appeal to President Donald Trump.

The report reflects the ongoing gradual decline in U.S. births that has persisted for most of the past two decades, only interrupted by a modest uptick in 2024.

The fighting is paused for about two weeks, but Trump's threats against civilian infrastructure alarm Catholic moral theologians, who emphasize that it is immoral to intentionally harm noncombatants.

“At the core of the ecological and social crises is a human heart enclosed in upon itself, alienated from God, our neighbor, and creation,” the bishops said in a new pastoral missive.

The U.S. Embassy to the Holy See has strongly denied reports that the government demanded the Vatican throw support behind U.S. military actions.

As Planned Parenthood reports a record 434,450 abortions of unborn babies in 2023-2024, advocates for unborn children renew their call to permanently defund the group.

A French Catholic aid leader said conditions in southern Lebanon have become untenable.

The pontiff addressed athletes from the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Archbishop José H. Gomez has declared 15 sites in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles as pilgrimage destinations during the 2026 Jubilee Year of St. Francis.

Vatican News takes an inside look at 'Casa Santa Maria' of the Pontifical North American College, the home away from home for American priests to live and pray together during their studies in Rome, that leaves them 'tremendously enriched' and ready for their mission back home, and contributes to their always falling more in love with the faith and the Lord.

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