In a country disillusioned with Catholicism, Ireland’s St. Brigid is having a moment.

C.R.S. President Sean Callahan spent a dramatic day in Rafah, meeting with a few of the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians who have escaped the fighting between Hamas and the Israel Defense Forces.

Mauro Pallotta, the Italian graffiti artist known as Maupal, has designed cartoon-like images of Pope Francis around the Vatican for a decade. On Thursday, he sat the podium at the Vatican news conference.

A Reflection for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, by Kevin Christopher Robles

In cases of a cleric sexually abusing a “vulnerable adult,” the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith investigates and judges only cases involving “persons who habitually have an imperfect use of reason.”

The child tax credit enhancements will lift as many as 400,000 children above the poverty line in 2024 and move an additional 3 million U.S. children in deep poverty closer to the poverty line.

If you identify as pro-choice, resist the label pro-abortion and sincerely want to reduce the number of unwanted and coerced abortions, the opportunities to do so are abundant and bipartisan.

A Reflection for Thursday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz

Colleen and Gerry explore the appointment of three new bishops and the approval of a new diocese in China, actions that indicate rapid developments in the Vatican’s complex relationship with China.

The great danger of artificial intelligence is not that it is ineffective. It can also perform quite effectively. In fact, it is already transforming modern warfare.

A Homily for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein

The spokesperson for the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference said that the conference “has taken a slightly different stand from the rest of Africa” on the Vatican declaration “Fiducia Supplicans.”

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. John Bosco, priest, by Ricardo da Silva, S.J.

The controversy over blessing gay couples is just another example of synodality at work, according to Sr. Nathalie Becquart.

The archdiocesan statement said Cardinal Gérald Lacroix “categorically denies the allegations against him” and considers them “unfounded.”

After the publication of "Laudato Si'," rumors circulated that Pope Francis had personally asked Leonardo Boff for his input on the writing of the encyclical. It marked an ironic turn in the theologian's long career.

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by Heather Trotta

The Catholic partisan divide provides an opportunity for the church to model proper civic behavior.

America’s Catholic Movie Club columnist looks at this year’s crop of contenders.