Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Louis Sako, the Iraq-based Chaldean Catholic patriarch of Baghdad, ending his 13-year tenure leading Iraq’s largest Christian denomination, the Vatican said.

Belgian Cardinal Dominique Mathieu of Tehran-Isfahan surfaced in Rome after days of uncertainty about his whereabouts following the start of a U.S. and Israel-Iran war.

An American cardinal has issued “a call to conscience,” while deploring efforts to “gamify” the U.S.-Israel war with Iran — particularly on the part of the Trump administration.

A new survey by the Pew Research Center shows Americans are “more likely” than those in other nations to raise an eyebrow at the morality of those in their own country.

An Indiana court blocked the state’s near-total abortion ban March 5 in response to a class action lawsuit claiming the ban violated religious freedom protections.

The Trump administration on March 6 again asked a judge to pause a state lawsuit seeking to roll back Biden administration-era eased restrictions on mifepristone, a drug commonly, but not exclusively, used for first trimester abortion.

Pope Leo XIV sent a message to students gathered at Loyola University Chicago for a peacebuilding conference March 7, calling on them to “be co-workers for peace with Christ.”

A Lebanese Maronite Catholic priest has been killed in southern Lebanon when an Israeli artillery tank fired on a house March 9, Catholic officials and media said — reports that have since been confirmed by OSV News.

The Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations in Geneva called on governments and international organizations to strengthen religious freedom protections for persecuted Christians.

As bishops and archbishops from the worldwide Anglican Communion sever links with England’s first female archbishop of Canterbury, citing her church’s “false teaching,” Catholics are being urged to maintain friendly ties while dropping illusions about future reunification.