Mexico’s Catholic leaders have urged the country’s political leaders to listen to victims of violence, seek input from all sectors of society and work together toward pacifying the country as the nation confronts rampant insecurity.

Marking the Jan. 19 Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, urged Catholics to reflect on how they are called to be “drum majors for justice” in their own communities.

A formal inquiry of a 19th-century Belgian-American immigrant woman who witnessed three apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary has begun in the Diocese of Green Bay.

The University of Notre Dame recently received from the Lilly Endowment a $50.8 million grant — the largest given by a private foundation in the school’s history — to support the DELTA Network, a faith-based approach to AI ethics launched in September 2025.

Guaranteed basic income, also known as universal basic income, is one of the more contested threads in America’s social safety net — the network of state and federal government programs designed to insulate citizens from economic hardship.

Capuchin Franciscan Father John Aurilia — the former assistant to St. Padre Pio whose final interview last October on the Wilmington’s Diocese’s Catholic Forum broke records as it was viewed nearly 300,000 times — died Jan. 13 in Wilmington. He was 85.

After decades of legal disputes, delays and competing claims, Ukraine’s Roman Catholic community has received the right to use Kyiv’s historic St. Nicholas Church for the next 50 years, under an agreement signed with the state.

Pope Leo XIV, who plays the daily online puzzle Wordle, is not the only papal puzzle lover.

A congregation of Catholic women religious is lamenting the downfall of an acclaimed nursing home it once operated, after severe neglect and endangerment of residents by the current owners prompted Ohio state officials to intervene.

The National Eucharistic Revival — a three-year initiative to renew belief in the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, following a marked decline in belief among U.S. Catholics — has rekindled both faith and outreach, according to a new study, although several challenges remain in extending those results to those not already in the pews.