In a nation fixated on affordability, a Catholic school K-12 education can easily become a contested line in the family budget.

The prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith opened the discastery’s Jan. 27-29 plenary session with a strong call for humility in thought, theology and online discourse.

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne bid his farewell to the German Synodal Way and said he won’t participate in the upcoming sixth assembly, starting Jan. 29.

Personal testimonies like Bishop Seitz’s at the OneLife event highlighted the challenges, responsibilities — and blessings — in being pro-life in today’s environment. Apart from abortion, the Jan. 24 event at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels also highlighted other life issues, among them immigration, drug abuse and assisted suicide.

Amid soaring domestic and global tensions, the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has called for a Holy Hour for peace as “a moment of renewal for our hearts and for our nation.”

Mexico’s bishops called on the country to “work together toward peace” after a massacre on a soccer field in west-central Guanajuato state claimed 11 lives and injured a dozen more.

The Word of God is not “fossilized,” but rather develops and grows in tradition, Pope Leo XIV said.

More U.S. Catholic bishops are sounding the alarm over an increasingly frayed social order both at home and abroad — while calling for a renewal of heart and a recommitment to Gospel values safeguarding God-given human dignity.

“I’ll only say that we must pray very much for peace.” Those were the words of Pope Leo XIV given in a brief statement to Italian television as he left Villa Barberini, his residence in Castel Gandolfo, where, as usual, he had spent his Tuesday both resting and working.

Pope Leo XIV called for an end to all antisemitism, prejudice, oppression and persecution worldwide.