Letters from Annunciation students and their families in Minneapolis made it to Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican Oct. 1 — via Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis as he visited with Pope Leo for the first time.

The current abuse of vulnerable migrants is not the legitimate exercise of national sovereignty, Pope Leo XIV said, but rather it represents a serious crime being committed or tolerated by the government.

A U.S. Ukrainian Catholic archbishop is speaking out after Russian forces struck a kindergarten in Ukraine’s second largest city, while killing two children — including an infant — near that nation’s capital.

Two imprisoned journalists, Belarusian Catholic Andrzej Poczobut and Georgian Mzia Amaglobeli, have been named laureates of the 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, to be awarded by the European Parliament Dec. 16.

Pope Leo XIV welcomed Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla to the Vatican for a unique visit combining ceremonial flourishes and a historic moment of prayer in the Sistine Chapel.

On Oct. 22, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced details regarding its 2025 fall plenary assembly, which will take place in Baltimore Nov. 10-13.

Pope Leo XIV thanked the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem for supporting the Christian communities in the Holy Land, especially during the “tragic days of war.”

A Chicago-area priest is on a mission to highlight the plight of families upended by the current mass deportation efforts in the United States by making a 50-day pilgrimage — on foot — from Chicago to New York.

Recent study results from the Barna Group — a leading marketing research firm focused on the intersection between faith and culture — confirm what the Gospels already tell us: Faith grows best in fellowship.

Wisconsin’s attorney general has asked the state’s high court to consider invalidating a key religious exemption to the state’s unemployment program that has been used by faith-based organizations across Wisconsin and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.