Violence

Catholics in the Middle East are reeling with shock and sorrow, and responding with prayer, amid joint strikes Israeli and U.S. forces launched on Iran Feb. 28.

“No Priests Left,” a short-film documentary series produced by “A Faith Under Siege,” documents the persecution of Catholics in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

The U.S. bishops’ Committee for Religious Liberty issued its “Annual Report on the State of Religious Liberty” Feb. 17 outlining areas of critical concern.

The human heart finds its home in God and in communion with others, said two Catholic clergy from embattled eastern Ukraine at the annual New York Encounter.

Police identified the suspect late that Monday as Robert Dugan, a biological male who appeared to identify as a woman and went by the name Roberta Esposito.

The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus address given Feb. 1 to those gathered in St. Peter’s Squarer, reflecting on Jesus Christ’s Beatitudes.

Lawmakers sought to avoid a partial government shutdown, while some U.S. bishops praised the Trump administration’s expanded Mexico City Policy.

Amid soaring domestic and global tensions, the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has called for a Holy Hour for peace for national renewal.

More U.S. Catholic bishops are sounding the alarm over an increasingly frayed social order both at home and abroad, calling for a recommitment to the Gospel.

Pope Leo XIV reflected on the Sunday gospel reading on the calling of Simon Peter, Andrew, James and John, and our mission to proclaim the Gospel.