Alejandra Molina

Four men were killed by death squads in El Salvador decades ago. Now, as the martyrs are closer to official sainthood, Salvadorans in the U.S. hope the designation could inspire the church to center the poor and marginalized.

Mientras que los cuatro mártires están un paso más cerca de la santidad, los salvadoreños en los Estados Unidos esperan que la designación pueda inspirar a la Iglesia Católica a centrarse en los pobres y marginados.

To learn his new role, Smith connected with the Catholic Labor Network, a nonprofit that promotes the cause of workers and Catholic social teaching in labor unions and parishes. 

A lay Catholic group in Baltimore is pushing the pope to canonize six Black candidates. They also seek to change the canonization process to recognize the hardships African Americans have endured.

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles is suing the Los Angeles Unified School District, arguing that legal action is necessary to force the district to take the appropriate steps to restore federal funding for low-income and disadvantaged students who attend Catholic schools.

It’s important for Catholics to be cautious, but not afraid, as they prepare to honor the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe a year after COVID-19 shut down the annual pilgrimage.

After Strassburger and Hotop were ordained, the two are working together, having been sent to the Diocese of Brownsville in Texas to minister in the Rio Grande Valley along the U.S.-Mexico border.

 Students at Loyola Marymount University are protesting against the university after it announced it may be amending its policies surrounding student-organized activities.

The study, " Faith Among Black Americans," reveals the particular difficulty the Catholic Church is having in retaining Black adults who were raised Catholic.

After a pair of Catholic churches caught ablaze last summer, one in Southern California and another in Florida, the U.S. bishops' conference has started tracking vandalism at Catholic sites across the country.

Students and alumni at Loyola Marymount Universityare railing against a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood that a student group is hosting on Nov. 5.

Members of Apache Stronghold have led a spiritual convoy to San Francisco, where a court on Oct. 22 will hear an appeal the group has filed to keep land in Arizona they consider sacred from being transferred to a copper mining company.

The Pew Research Center found that 82% of Catholic adults said they were at least partially vaccinated as of August — data that included 86% of Latino Catholics and 79% of white Catholics.

A year after the Junipero Serra statue toppling advocates are urging the Marin County district attorney to drop the felony charges against the five protesters who were arrested after the monument was torn down on Indigenous Peoples Day.

Jeannie Gaffigan collaborated with Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles to host a virtual panel on Aug. 31 directed specifically at Catholic audiences. The panel, titled "Vaccines Are a Life Issue," examined the most widespread pieces of vaccine misinformation and walked the audience through responses to each.

For the Rev. James Baron, pastor of Holy Apostles Catholic Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, it’s the responsibility of the church to advocate for the conscience of others. That’s why Baron’s parish, on its website and its Facebook page, shared a link to a template made available for priests to sign “if a Catholic wants a written record that they are seeking (COVID-19 vaccine) exemption on religious grounds.”

San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy has sent a letter instructing priests in his diocese that there is no basis in Catholic teaching to offer a religious exemption for COVID-19 vaccinations as more employers and schools enact vaccine mandates.

The state of California has found that the Los Angeles public school district violated federal law in the manner it slashed funding for low-income and disadvantaged students who attend Catholic schools.

An estimated 8,000 people came July 17 to attend the unveiling of what is the first major stand-alone shrine to the La Vang virgin in the United States.

Washington, Colorado and Oregon are now among the U.S. states that have legalized the process of converting human bodies into soil, a procedure the Catholic Church said fails to show “respect for the body of the deceased.”