George Weigel warns that the 2020 Democratic platform “threatens to rinse out religious freedom and reduce it to a question of personal lifestyle choice.”

A diocesan spokesperson for the diocese told Catholic News Service Oct. 6 that the diocese only learned of the closures at Cuomo’s news conference.

The youth ministry of Mary Help of Christians Parish and the archdiocese's minor seminary have been helping distribute rice meals to the needy as part of the project's expansion.

New social actors, especially evangelical Protestant groups and right-wing movements, have joined the debate on the liberalization of abortion law.

Criminal justice, race relations and health care round out the list of top voter concerns, according to a September Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Democratic voters, according to the poll, place a higher emphasis on health as a voting issue than Republicans.

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the American health care system. How can Catholics vote to ensure that no one is denied access to care?

The encyclical letter “Fratelli Tutti” returns to many major themes of Francis’ papacy, reports America’s Gerard O’Connell, but incorporated into a grand vision of social friendship and international cooperation.

One of the most fundamental teachings of the Catholic Church is to welcome immigrants and refugees. So why are Catholics in America split?

We meet Gloria the journalist, world-traveler, daughter, friend and reluctant spokeswoman of the feminist movement.

Bishop Barber said Oct. 1 the "economic devastation" in this country wrought by the pandemic "has already led to the closure of at least 150 Catholic schools, many in low-income areas that serve children of color."