The Catholic Church teaches today what it has for two thousand years: Human life begins at conception and any deliberate participation in the killing of that defenseless life is a mortal sin.

Oct. 7 will mark a year since the brutal Hamas attack on Israeli communities and the no less brutal Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip that immediately followed.

Exhumed in May 2023, four years after her death, Benedictine Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, foundress of the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, was discovered preserved from decay.

The first World Youth Day to be hosted in a country where Christians are a minority will seek to instill young people with the courage to share the Gospel while fostering interreligious dialogue, organizers of the event said.

The English and Welsh bishops have criticized a decision by the British government to put “buffer zones” around all abortion clinics, which could see Christians arrested for offering private prayers.

Christianity “freed from the old demons” can be a driving force of Europe, a French professor argued during the Sept. 20-21 international conference on “The New Shape of Europe,” part of a series on the role of Christians in the process of European integration.

As the Catholic Church commemorates the 110th World Day of Migrants and Refugees Sept. 29, Burkina Faso, “the world’s neglected crisis,” faces this reality: Over 2 million people, or 10 percent of the population, are internally displaced.

An international model of faith-based small groups is finding a home in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis less than a year into its implementation as part of Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda’s vision in his 2022 pastoral letter, “You Will Be My Witnesses: Gathered and Sent From the Upper Room.”

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops invites the faithful to join in a novena for mental health as part of the second year of the USCCB’s ongoing National Catholic Mental Health Campaign.

As Florida prepared for the massive Hurricane Helene to make landfall along the state’s Gulf Coast the evening of Sept. 26, Bishop William A. Wack of Pensacola-Tallahassee livestreamed his personal reflection and prayer.