Christopher White

Students for Life of America will hold protests in seven U.S. cities June 16, urging on an effort by U.S. Catholic bishops who seek to deny President Joe Biden Communion over his support for abortion rights.

NCR interview with video: Former Speaker of the House John Boehner calls Joe Biden "a good man, a good Catholic and a good politician." In his own memoir, Boehner doesn't mince words about former colleagues.

NCR interview with video: The head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, is praising the Vatican's leadership in the push for COVID-19 vaccine acceptance as "extremely helpful."

The bishops pushing for a document about the denial of Communion to pro-choice Catholic politicians are the same prelates who have previously opposed Pope Francis' approach to pastoral life.

Just months after the Vatican forbid priests from blessing same-sex unions, Catholic leaders and organizations kicked off Pride month with a blessings service for LGBTQ Catholics.

While none of the characters in "Mare of Easttown" (except the local priest and deacon) are especially religious or pious, viewers get glimpses of Catholicism in every episode.

"The Review Board has concluded that there is insufficient reason to suspect Father Pfleger is guilty of these allegations," Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich wrote in a letter to the St. Sabina congregation May 24.

Fr. James Altman, who became known in 2020 for saying faithful Catholics cannot be Democrats, for ignoring COVID-19 protocols and for anti-immigrant and racist remarks, has been asked to step down as pastor of his church.

As the U.S. bishops consider a new document to address Catholic politicians who support legal abortion, historians and theologians describe the U.S. church-state confrontation as one lacking much precedent.

Former President George W. Bush, Cardinal Timothy Dolan and comedian Jay Leno are scheduled guests at the exclusive "FOCUS Founder's Forum," hosted by the Fellowship of Catholic University Students in October.

Jesuit Fr. Kevin O'Brien has resigned as president of Santa Clara University, after a leave of absence that began in March following unspecified allegations involving Jesuit graduate students.

Bishops, canon lawyers and others discuss the way Pope Francis' sweeping church law on bishop accountability, issued two years ago, is playing out for the U.S. church.

Church leaders uncomfortable with Pope Francis' emphasis on mercy and an attentiveness to the voices of those on the peripheries should reexamine their skepticism, according to Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey.

Amid conservative Catholics' growing calls to deny President Biden Communion, San Francisco Archbishop Cordileone has released a letter calling for public figures who support abortion to be barred from the sacrament.

One of the U.S. Catholic Church's most infamous agitators, Gary Michael Voris, may soon face a reckoning in court as a result of a rare lawsuit against Church Militant, which he founded and is being accused of defamation.

Panelists for "Taking Measure of the 'Biden Effect' " joined the intensifying debate within the U.S. church about whether the Catholic president should be barred from Communion over his support for legal abortion.

Vaccines are just one of many concerns of the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. Board member McElroy emphasizes its approach to economic and environmental issues: "They're all related."

Following the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, Black Catholic leaders say it's a "small start" in both the country and the church's long overdue efforts for racial justice.

As Biden searches for his new Vatican diplomat, experts say the world's smallest state and one of the world's last superpowers are well-situated to have a relationship marked by collaboration, rather than contention.

Catholic refugee resettlement groups hoped that on day one in office, President Biden would officially authorize increasing the number of refugees allowed into the U.S. Eighty-six days later, they're still waiting.