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Religion News Service on MSNCourt blocks West Virginia taxpayer funding to out-of-state Catholic collegeThe American Humanist Association, which has a chapter in West Virginia, sued its water authority for awarding a $5 million grant to an Ohio Catholic college.
According to Vatican News, the official Vatican website, this decision by the Pope 'concludes the Holy See's mediation work among the Syro-Malabars.'
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has confirmed that the Catholic Church will not endorse political candidates for public office, despite a tax code change that has allowed for houses of worship to make such endorsements.
How the Catholic Church helped change the conversation about capital punishment in the United States
Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.
The grant money would have supported job training and education programs based in West Virginia for students of The College of St. Joseph the Worker, which is based in Steubenville, Ohio, and teaches construction-related trades such as carpentry,
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The Catholic Church will continue to allow blessings for same-sex couples — but not recognition for their unions as “marriages” — under Pope Leo XIV, a Vatican official said this week, continuing a precedent set by the late Pope Francis.
As the so-called One Big, Beautiful Bill made its way toward congressional approval last month, U.S. Catholic bishops signed their names to not one but two letters to senators on the same day, both airing misgivings.
About six months into the second Trump presidency, Republicans are charting a collision course with the Catholic Church. Stark and growing differences between their views on migrants, the poor, technology,
Although the IRS recently allowed religious organizations to address their faithful about electoral politics, the Church will not speak on specific candidates.
We asked several Utah faith leaders if they would endorse a political candidate from the pulpit after the Internal Revenue Service said in a court filing this week that they could. Here's what they said.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids is planning to merge and close some of its churches due to a shortage of new priests.
Let’s not forget that, once upon a time, Catholicism was quite active in those countries. The Church honors “three kings” as saints on July 10 — not Kasper, Melchior, and Balthasar but Canute of Denmark, Erik of Sweden and Olaf of Norway. Two — Canute and Erik — were martyrs.