Out of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference 2024 fall general assembly comes a new mission directive to guide the conference’s work ...

Several U.S. Catholic bishops on Wednesday encouraged the church to boldly share Vatican teachings on a range of hot-button ...

Archbishop Borys Gudziak made his remarks at the conference’s annual fall meeting in Baltimore on Nov. 13.

The lay faithful have a “real hunger … for leadership from their priests and bishops alike on this issue,” Bishop Seitz said, ...

The Trump administration offers promise and peril for American Catholic leaders’ top policy concerns, which include abortion ...

At a press conference, Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, who chairs the USCCB’s committee on pro-life ...

Archbishop Charles C. Thompson of Indianapolis, chair of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, ...

According to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), an encyclical is a papal letter and "its audience is every Catholic and all people of good will." The first encyclical, in the current ...

This story was produced in partnership with the National Catholic Reporter. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, every state-level campaign to limit abortion has failed. But that hasn’t ...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Public Affairs is encouraging Catholics across the country to take part in the “Novena for Faithful Citizenship” beginning Nov. 1 and ending Nov. 9.

From the beginning of his papacy, Pope Francis has waged war against clericalism and called on the clergy to be servants of the people of God. This struggle continued in the synod on synodality ...

Not for the first time, this year’s presidential election is causing those who use Catholic teaching as a voting guide to feel especially conflicted, as both candidates are far from ideal by ...