Several Catholics who have fled the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles have been praying for the intercession of Our Lady of Champion, who once saved a rural Wisconsin shrine from a devastating inferno.

A Philadelphia parish is in shock following the brazen theft of an historic golden crown from a beloved statue of Mary.

New York is now the first state to offer paid leave to expectant mothers for prenatal medical appointments.

When outdoor conditions turn brutal, the difference between life and death can be the work of Catholic agencies and organizations serving an estimated 653,104 homeless Americans — a number that marked a record high in 2023, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reported.

Since the start of their February 2022 full-scale invasion, Russian forces have killed close to 70 clergy and destroyed more than 630 places of worship in Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s ministry of foreign affairs.

Calls have multiplied in Nigeria for the release of Sister Vincentia Maria Nwankwo and Sister Grace Mariette Okoli. Both religious were kidnapped Jan. 7 along Ufuma Road as they returned from their vocational associations’ meeting held in Ogboji, a town in Anambra state.

Pope Francis has named three U.S. experts — two women and an abbot — to be members of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, a position once reserved for cardinals and bishops.

The Italian bishops’ new program of priestly formation, approved by the Vatican, repeats a prohibition against admitting to the seminary men with “deep-seated homosexual tendencies,” but also says that being gay does not automatically exclude a candidate.

“It’s quite an honor for her to be here with the likes of St. Oscar Romero,” Tom Stang said after a relic of his sister was placed on an altar in Rome alongside a relic of the martyred archbishop from El Salvador.

God has not abandoned the Romani people even if it often seemed that the society and even Catholic Church had, Pope Francis said.