Brian Fraga

Catholic social justice activists, and even a bishop, were pleasantly surprised at the overwhelming support that U.S. prelates showed for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development during their spring assembly.

Updated: In his opening address to the U.S. bishops' spring assembly, Cardinal Christophe Pierre told them that Pope Francis shared their desire that Catholics in the United States "rediscover the power of the Eucharist."

Given that Pax Christi USA has helped to "revive the concept of Gospel-based nonviolence," the organization seemed like "a natural fit" for the Dorothy Day Guild's initial Dorothy Day Peacemaker Award, said guild chairman Kevin Ahern.

The Catholic University of America in D.C. announced a new chairman and a new vice chairman of its Board of Trustees. Robert Neal and Bishop John Barres both have ties to conservative Catholic organizations.

"We have not confronted the underlying problem: What kind of country are we going to be?" Diann Rust-Tierney of Georgetown's Racial Justice Initiative said during a recent panel discussion.

At the conference's spring meeting, the bishops will begin the process of "discerning the next 50 years" for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.

Where progressive Catholics saw a victory for the rule of law, their conservative coreligionists bemoaned what they considered a travesty of justice that they believe was engineered by President Joe Biden.

Word on Fire, a nonprofit founded by Bishop Robert Barron, has again threatened Commonweal magazine over an article that questioned how Barron and his organization have engaged with former President Donald Trump's political movement.

Commonweal magazine edited an online essay by a popular author after receiving a threat of legal action from Word on Fire, the Catholic media organization founded by and featuring Minnesota Bishop Robert Barron.

A Catholic bishop in Michigan has apologized for disparaging President Joseph Biden as "stupid." Bishop Robert Gruss of Saginaw said he used "poor judgment" in his choice of words.

A Catholic bishop in Michigan vilified President Joe Biden as a "stupid" Catholic "who is not living the life Jesus wants for him" during an April 5 presentation after a celebration of daily Mass.

Three-quarters of U.S. Catholics view Pope Francis favorably, but that figure is down 8 percentage points from 2021 and reflects growing polarization between Republicans and Democrats, a new Pew Research survey finds.

Donning special protective glasses, millions of Americans on Monday gazed into the heavens for an encounter with totality. But the total solar eclipse prompted others, including a few Catholics, to think of more ominous omens.

In 2017 the U.S. bishops formed an Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, amid rising white nationalist activity. The current realities of racism demand a deeper commitment from the bishops, Black Catholic leaders told NCR.

Speaking to CBS News, Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory likened President Joe Biden to a "cafeteria Catholic" who is "sincere" in his faith but ignores some of its teachings as do "a number of other Catholics."

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's legal efforts to shut down a Catholic migrant shelter network in El Paso, Texas, is the latest example of the state trying to criminalize migrants and migration, said Bishop Mark Seitz.

Featuring apocalyptic rhetoric tinged with Christian nationalism and far-right grievances, the March 19 "Catholic Prayer for Trump" event at Mar-a-Lago presented a bleak portrait of life in the United States. 

Facing a shrinking group of priests, the Paulist Fathers on March 13 announced the society will close three national offices and leave two campus ministry programs, including its 117-year ministry in Berkeley, California.

"Catholics for Catholics" is a small nonprofit that has made a quick impact in Catholic political involvement. It's now set to take its combative vision of the faith to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.

Some of former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's fellow alumni at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati want the young Republican politician removed from the Jesuit school's board of trustees.