The Latest Breaking News from the Catholic Church

The scandal of the religious-run Magdalene laundries, where young women deemed to have offended the moral code of the Catholic Church were incarcerated and put to work, is a stain on the public history of the Irish state. It has taken years of campaigning to bring this injustice to light.

The U.S. feminist movement’s perpetual quest for gender equality has suffered notable setbacks during President Donald Trump’s second term

U.S. Catholic bishops have voted to make official a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender patients at Catholic hospitals

The Catholic Church in Tanzania has condemned the recent killings of protesters and warns that peace requires justice

The vice president’s comments thrust the deeply sensitive challenges facing interfaith couples into the spotlight

Cardinal Dominik Duka, a former Archbishop of Prague, has died at 82

St John Henry Newman was a Church of England priest before he converted to Catholicism

For months, a Washington state bill generated controversy over two critical interests: protecting children from abuse and protecting the freedom of religion.

Pope Leo XIV has reaffirmed the Catholic Church's commitment to fighting antisemitism amid rising tensions from Israel's war in Gaza

Pope Leo XIV has marked the 60th anniversary of the landmark Vatican document that revolutionized the Catholic Church’s relations with Jews

Father Richard D'Souza said all life forms are God's creation, and would be entitled to join the Catholic Church.