Mexico’s two main presidential candidates have met with Pope Francis in the prelude to the country’s election campaigns, marking a further retreat from the country’s previously strictly secular political culture as they court voters in the predominantly Catholic country.

For three Franciscans from the Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe — postulants Jimmy Beh and Thomas Pack and Father Steven Kuehn — joining the 800-plus-year-old religious order founded by St. Francis of Assisi was not just a proverbial leap of faith.

As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine reaches the two-year mark, religious leaders in Canada and Ukraine have issued statements calling for justice, peace and broad support of Ukraine’s recovery.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed suit in an attempt to shut down a Catholic nonprofit in El Paso serving migrants and asylum-seekers, accusing it of “human smuggling,” in a move denounced by Catholic immigration advocates, including El Paso Bishop Mark J. Seitz. “We’re taking some hits right now, you know, right to the […]

Greece’s minority Catholic Church has deplored a parliamentary vote to allow same-sex marriage and child adoption, the first in a predominantly Orthodox country.

Panels of three stained-glass windows were shattered at the National Shrine of St. John Neumann in Philadelphia in the early morning hours of Feb. 19.

An Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos qualify as children under state law has raised complex legal questions about artificial reproductive practices opposed by the Catholic Church.

Ukraine’s struggle against Russian aggression is “about genocide and the survival of an ethnic nation” — something the West does not realize, a Ukrainian Catholic archbishop told OSV News.

As debate over the U.S. commitment to NATO becomes a talking point of the 2024 campaign, a Catholic peace scholar cautioned against creating confusion for U.S. allies.

This Black History Month, Charlie Camosy spoke with Gregory Herr, who helped establish the first Knights of Peter Claver Council in Orange County, Calif., in 2022, domiciled at Christ Cathedral.