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Saying he watched "in horror" news reports in the aftermath of a mass shooting during a suburban Fourth of July parade, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago offered prayers for the victims.

Pope Francis decries a shooting in which six people were killed and over 30 injured at a Fourth of July parade in the northern Chicago suburb of Highland Park.

Tongue-in-cheek humor paces the vivid action in "Thor: Love and Thunder" (Disney), the third direct sequel to the Marvel Comics-based franchise's 2011 original.

When John Garvey arrived at the Catholic University of America 12 years ago and needed a theme for his inaugural address as university president, he chose “intellect and virtue,” with the premise that the job of a Catholic university was more than teaching a course. It was also to form students into “good Catholics and good citizens while they were there.”

In the Supreme Court's 2021-2022 term, which concluded June 30, it issued four opinions on religious liberty cases, siding with religion each time.

More than 200 people from all over the United States and Canada, as well as from the United Kingdom, Italy, Colombia and Uganda, gathered June 24-25 in New York City for the first in-person Outreach LGBTQ Catholic Ministry Conference.

U.S. Catholic immigration leaders celebrated a June 30 Supreme Court ruling that allows the Biden administration to end a controversial Trump-era border policy, but they have little optimism that the ruling will prompt any steps towards true immigration reform.

With the reversal of Roe, Judy Orr, executive director of Catholic Charities in the Nashville Diocese, and the agency's adoption and pregnancy counseling staff expect an uptick in the need for those services.

The Supreme Court June 30 rejected a challenge to New York's vaccine mandate for health care workers with no religious exemption.

In a time filled with many fears and spiritual "potholes," Franciscan scholar Jon Sweeney gives us some helpful reflections on how to navigate these days in light of who St. Francis of Assisi was and how he lived.

Bishop Edward Scharfenberger of Albany is proposing a new plan for victims/survivors of clergy sexual abuse in the diocese that he argues will maximize their monetary recovery on a fair and equitable basis, accelerate those payments, and allow the diocese to avoid litigation or bankruptcy.

Just as in the days following last month’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller this week has been visiting hospitals, celebrating Masses, and praying.

"It's a really humbling thing to be a part of, to be among the people who are creating the music that we walk out of church singing," said Basi, a Catholic columnist, author, composer, wife, mother and active parishioner.

A '70s vibe adds verve to the animated origin story "Minions: The Rise of Gru" (Universal).

Nancy Pelosi took Communion during a Mass presided over by Pope Francis on Wednesday.

Dreadfully crass to boot, the limited series is streaming in eight half-hour episodes.

For almost three generations of Americans, abortion has been not only a constitutional right but a fact of life.

Religious liberty advocates are hailing a Monday, June 27, Supreme Court decision that a high school football coach had a constitutional right to pray at the 50-yard line after his team’s games as a landmark ruling for religious exercise in public life.

Pope Francis expresses his condolences to victims of a tragedy in San Antonio, Texas, in which 46 migrants were found dead in an abandoned lorry.