Chile's bishops' congratulated José Antonio Kast for claiming the South American country's election, but called for the president-elect to "promote an environment of dialogue, encounter, and respect, essential for rebuilding social trust" amid deep divisions and rising concerns over...
The high school sports winter season started only a few weeks ago, but most teams will take a break following this week. For some, that has already begun.
There are still a few notable games and events on the schedule...
Americans who leave their childhood religion typically do so by the age of 30, with just under half saying they stopped believing their former religion's teachings.
For Catholics, retention rates tend to be significantly lower than for other faiths, while...
WASHINGTON -- Although there was a significant increase in executions in the U.S. in 2025, a smaller number of new death sentences was imposed, a new report from the Death Penalty Information Center found.
The year-end report, published Dec. 15,...
Life issues are perennially critical to the robust public witness of the Catholic Church, but 2025 nonetheless proved a particularly eventful year across a wide spectrum of related concerns.
The year opened with the annual National Prayer Vigil for Life,...
After two gunmen targeted Jewish beachgoers at an event celebrating the first day of Hanukkah in a terror attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach, Pope Leo XIV said he is "deeply saddened" by the attack he called "horrific."
In a Dec....
A Catholic Nobel Peace Prize winner who was unexpectedly freed from jail in Belarus has paid tribute to supporters who helped secure his release, while warning that over a thousand political prisoners still languish in his country's penal colonies.
"Psychologically,...
Hong Kong's prominent Catholic, media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai has been convicted of national security offenses under the city's controversial national security law.
Sebastien Lai, one of his children, said the family was saddened but not surprised by...
VATICAN CITY -- The Nativity scene and the Christmas tree are signs of faith and hope, Pope Leo XIV said.
"As we contemplate them in our homes, parishes and town squares, let us ask the Lord to renew in us...
WILMINGTON — The Padua Academy community gathered the week of Dec. 8 to celebrate the Advent season with a prayer service filled with music, readings, prayers, reflections and the lighting of the Advent candle.
Following the service, the student council...