Pope Leo XIV has heavy responsibilities ~ not just because the Catholic Church has reached global proportions, but because it ...

Cardinal Robert McElroy, the Archbishop of Washington, has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s immigration ...

Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, the Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor, has died in Buenos Aires at ...

By Edoardo Giribaldi Pope Leo XIV presided over the celebration of Sunday's Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, patrons of ...

The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Washington state over a new law, Senate Bill 5375, which makes clergy members ...

DOJ said it is intervening in Etienne v. Ferguson, a lawsuit filed by Catholic bishops in Washington state who filed a ...

While only 20% of U.S. adults currently identify as Catholic by religion, millions more hold cultural, familial or historical ...

Yet fewer than 3 in 10 adults (28%) of those 20% who identify as Catholic in the religious sense attend Mass at least weekly, and slightly less than a quarter (23%) attend Confession yearly ... that ...

Nearly half of U.S. adults are connected to Catholicism, according to Pew Research Center. Read about going to Mass, Communion, confession and more.

And 40% don’t do any of them – they do not go to Mass each week, do not go to confession at least once a year, and do not pray every day. Read on for additional information about Catholic practices ...

Washington state’s bishops filed a lawsuit May 29 over a new law requiring clergy to report child abuse or neglect without exceptions for clergy-penitent privilege.

The dispute revolves around a state law that requires priests to report allegations of sexual abuse heard during confession.