The diocese in New York declared bankruptcy just over three years ago.

“When life hurts, what is truly human is to care, to accompany, and to sustain — not to kill,” Elena Postigo, a bioethics specialist said.

Following their plenary assembly earlier this month, bishops from the Anglican Ordinariates reflect on seven distinctive traits of their spiritual and pastoral heritage, including lay participation, commitment to the poor, and the family as domestic church.

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Pope Leo XIV erected the Diocese of Joypurhat on March 25, appointing Father Paul Gomes as first bishop of a region whose Catholics are largely Indigenous.

Mary Waldorf is rallying her town to petition against second-trimester abortions offered by Enloe Medical Center.

The Principality of Monaco is preparing to welcome Pope Leo XIV. “Small nations,” notes the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, “prove to be natural guardians of multilateralism.”

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Catholic leaders reacted after India’s Supreme Court allowed the withdrawal of life support for a man in a vegetative state for 13 years.

The Vatican held the “Cardinal Văn Thuận: Witness of Hope” conference at the Apostolic Palace of the Lateran in Rome on March 25.

In this week’s news from the Eastern Churches, produced in collaboration with L’Œuvre d’Orient we look ahead to Easter in the Holy Land, where celebrations are being compromised by the ongoing war in the Middle East.

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The audience with participants in an event organized by the Italian National Transplant Network took place March 26 at the Vatican.