Rhina Guidos, Catholic News Service
Pope Francis joins prayers for victims of bloody weekend in U.S.
WASHINGTON -- Pope Francis joined Catholic Church leaders expressing sorrow after back-to-back mass shootings in the United States left at least 31 dead and...
Washington Post report claims church leaders long knew about Bishop Bransfield...
WASHINGTON -- A recent newspaper report details claims that senior church leaders in the United States knew as far back as 2012 about complaints...
Analysis: New survey says Catholic organizations have responded well to changing...
WASHINGTON — Immigration policies rolled out during the Trump administration have spread fear among immigrant populations in the U.S., but Catholic organizations and parishes...
Border bishop addresses a different kind of crisis involving children
BALTIMORE — While the sex abuse crisis consumed the June meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore, prelates who work on...
Archbishop Lori expresses regret over West Va. probe in recent video
WASHINGTON -- After a major newspaper published a story about alleged financial and sexual misconduct by a West Virginia bishop, a prelate overseeing the...
Salvadoran priest laid to rest; yet another presumed victim of gangs
WASHINGTON -- Thousands attended the May 20 funeral of a Salvadoran priest found by his parishioners in what some presume is a gang killing.
Parishioners...
McCarrick laicization casts somber mood over church in wake of ‘profoundly...
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The accusations surrounding former U.S. Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick have been hanging over U.S. bishops and faith communities in the dioceses...
Catholic bishops, groups speak out against President Trump’s national emergency
WASHINGTON — Catholic bishops near the U.S.-Mexico border, joined by other U.S. prelates, voiced opposition just after President Donald Trump's Feb. 15 declaration of...
Catholic-run respite center for immigrants ordered shuttered by Texas municipality
WASHINGTON -- A group of city commissioners in the border city of McAllen, Texas, voted in mid-February to remove from a building a popular...
Head of U.S. bishops says new ‘season’ could come after abuse...
WASHINGTON — The laity may be angry over the most recent revelations of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis, but bishops, particularly younger ones,...