With student loan debt soaring, the University of Notre Dame has unveiled a new “no-loan policy” for undergraduate students, while also expanding its need-blind admissions policy to include domestic and international students.

The second session of the Synod of Bishops on synodality, set to bring 368 bishops, priests, religious and laypeople to the Vatican, will begin by asking forgiveness for various sins on behalf of all the baptized.

While the serious problems the world is facing are mostly beyond the control of the church, Catholics can “shine their light” and draw people to a path of peace and solidarity, said Bishop Andrew Cozzens of Crookston, Minn., the chairman of the board of the National Eucharistic Congress, Inc.

Bishop John P. Dolan of Phoenix led the prayer service — the first of three being held throughout the state ahead of this year’s Nov. 5 elections — with six of his counterparts from other Christian denominations in Arizona.

Issuing a Vatican postage stamp celebrating the 40th anniversary of full diplomatic relations between the United States and the Holy See is a sign of the importance the Vatican attributes to their relationship, said the president of the commission governing Vatican City State.

Pope Francis lamented the death of an Israeli-American hostage abducted by Hamas and called for the immediate release of all hostages being held in Gaza.

Poland’s government is preparing a decree of a state of natural disaster as the southwestern part of the country was severely flooded by torrential rains caused by Storm Boris.

Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, has repeated — without evidence — claims about Haitian immigrants eating the pets of residents in Springfield, Ohio.

This fall, as students return to college and university campuses, Hallow, the acclaimed prayer app, is working to help students build a vibrant faith life through forming partnerships with Catholic educational institutions across the country.

Heartbeat International — a Christian interdenominational, pro-life organization that supports the world’s largest network of crisis pregnancy centers — estimates there are over 400 maternity homes in the U.S., an 8 percent increase since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and other related abortion precedent in 2022.