The Pew Research Center found that 82 percent of Catholic adults said they were at least partially vaccinated as of August—including 86 percent of Latino Catholics and 79 percent of white Catholics.

In a statement released Oct. 11, the Diocese of Assisi said that since his beatification one year ago, an estimated 117,000 pilgrims visited the teen’s tomb in the Shrine of the Renunciation at the Church of St. Mary Major in Assisi.

The racial divide in American society and within the Catholic Church is one that needs to be bridged so that healing and progress can take place, said retired Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, Illinois.

Joseph Donnelly, 66, served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2013 and was a U.S. senator from 2013 to 2019.

Pope Francis will not be going to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, as he had hoped.

In his homily for a Red Mass in New Orleans, Bishop Robert Barron emphasized the need for religion in an otherwise secular society.