The report, resulting from a five-month inquiry into violence within the school system, proposes a series of measures aimed ...

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

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 ...

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

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Washington state over a new law, Senate Bill 5375, which makes ...

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.

50% of U.S. Catholic adults in our 2025 survey say they pray daily. 28% say they go to Mass weekly. 7 23% say they go to confession at least once a year. 8 In total, 13% of U.S. Catholics say they ...

Washington state's Catholic bishops filed a lawsuit May 29, 2025, over a new law that requires clergy to report child abuse or neglect but provides no exceptions for clergy-penitent privilege.

Update 5/23/25, 3:04 a.m. ET: This story has been updated with a comment from Catholic League President William A. Donohue.