In a signal of continuity, Pope Francis’s successor didn’t wear the papal red velvet loafers to his inaugural Mass before cardinals Friday at the Sistine Chapel.

More than 9,000 Catholic employers do not need to abide by federal regulations protecting workers who seek abortions and fertility treatments under a ruling issued this week by a federal judge.

As Pope Francis remains hospitalized, a group of migrant transgender women are praying for his recovery.

Catholics from across the U.S. have converged for five days of traditional devotions at the Indianapolis Colts’ football stadium in what they’re calling the National Eucharistic Congress.

In Mexico, activists from Catholics for the Right to Decide are helping women reconcile their faith and abortion rights.

Many sentiments are universal.

A University of Notre Dame professor has filed a defamation lawsuit against a student-run publication over coverage of her abortion-rights work.

Twenty-five years ago, the Good Friday Agreement halted much of the violence of Northern Ireland’s Troubles.

South Florida Catholics attended Wednesday mass after learning that Pope Francis has been hospitalized.

Across the U.S., numerous Republican-governed states are pushing for sweeping bans on abortion.

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has received Communion during a papal Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, despite her position in support of abortion rights.

Praise and lament for the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned abortion rights filled sacred spaces this weekend.

Pope Francis has complained that traditionalist Catholics are “gagging” the church’s modernizing reforms and insisted that there was no turning back.

Pope Francis has harsh words for those who hew to old-school versions of liturgy, like the Latin Mass, saying they are sowing divisions among Catholics.

U.S. Catholic bishops have overwhelmingly approved a document on Communion that stops short of calling for withholding the sacrament from politicians who support abortion rights, such as President Joe Biden.

Some Catholic bishops in the United States are persisting with criticism of President Joe Biden for his support of abortion rights.

U.S. Catholic bishops have overwhelmingly approved the drafting of a “teaching document” that many of them hope will rebuke Catholic politicians, including President Joe Biden, for receiving Communion despite their support for abortion rights.

U.S. Catholic bishops have debated heatedly over how to address concerns about Catholic politicians, including President Joe Biden, who continue to receive Communion despite supporting abortion rights.

When U.S. Catholic bishops convene virtually for a national meeting this week, they will be divided ideologically as well as physically.

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego share Roman Catholicism as a faith and California as their home base.

The coronavirus pandemic has been a difficult time for religious people across the world. At a time of loss and grief with COVID-19, some Catholics were unable to participate in in-person Mass for nearly a year. This Holy Week many are making it back to Mass.

The measures were meant to avoid turning the Catholic Christmas Eve Mass into a super spreader event during the coronavirus pandemic. The members of the church’s choir wore face masks to usher on Christmas Eve with traditional carols. Typically 1,000 people would be at the Church of the Little Flower for Christmas Eve mass, Alvarez said. About 200, and not the usual thousands, attended Francis’ Christmas vigil Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava extended the midnight curfew to 1 a.m. to allow Catholics to attend the Midnight Mass.

Pope Francis leaves after celebrating Mass on the occasion of the Christ the King festivity, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. But it also offers new personal insights into the 83-year-old Argentine pope and his sense of humor. Francis was elected pope, and bishop of Rome, on March 13, 2013. For Francis, the pandemic offers an unprecedented opportunity to imagine and plan for a more socially just world. “I have a sense of how people with the coronavirus feel as they struggle to breathe on ventilators,” Francis wrote.

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2003 file photo, Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., center, joins fellow clergy in prayer at the end of the opening session of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting in Washington. McCarrick who was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 served as head of Catholic dioceses in Metuchen and Newark, New Jersey, and in Washington. “The shadow of the McCarrick report hangs over this meeting,” said John Gehring, Catholic program director at a Washington-based clergy network called Faith in Public Life. The report found that three decades of bishops, cardinals and popes dismissed or downplayed reports of McCarrick’s misconduct with young men. The bishops will discuss the McCarrick report twice Monday, first in a private session and later in a public livestream, according to the communications office of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.