Homelessness must be addressed to create sustainable cities that enable every person to flourish and contribute to the common good, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations said July 28.

One of the 23 pro-life activists pardoned by President Donald Trump in 2025 for violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act, has reached a settlement with the federal government.

President Donald Trump issued a message July 28 marking the 45th anniversary of the martyrdom of Blessed Stanley Rother, the first American-born martyr to be beatified by the Catholic Church.

The U.S. Catholic bishops issued a nationwide call to prayer and action July 27 over the rising abortion rate and the increased availability of an abortion-inducing drug.

Wildfires burning through central Spain forced a community of Augustinian nuns to evacuate their monastery as flames threatened the region.

Before Florida executed two inmates in one day July 28, the Catholic bishops of that state issued a pastoral letter urging Catholics to reflect on the Church’s moral opposition to the practice.

The Trump administration’s move to seize a New Mexico pilgrimage site for border wall construction — despite religious liberty objections — continues to be contested in court, as a Texas lawmaker has introduced legislation to stop the takeover.

They stood feet from Philadelphia’s Ben Franklin Bridge as cars and commuter trains blared by, yet about 300 Catholics encountered a night of Catholic faith that looked, sounded and felt like what Benjamin Franklin might have experienced in 1776, and some of his fellow Founding Fathers of the United States of America actually did.

Of the approximately 30 million viewers of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen’s television program “Life Is Worth Living,” a large percentage did not identify as Catholic.

Pope Leo XIV urged young people not to be “couch potatoes” in a video message on July 25, adding that the Church needs their missionary energy and “holy rebelliousness.