A growing number of Catholic higher education institutions in recent years have introduced new academic majors and programs in artificial intelligence that combine technical training with ethics.

"I hope the pope comes to help the poor like me," said María Ruíz Díaz, a 70-year-old retiree.

The priest's St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal will resume its activities with a Sept. 28 online deliverance prayer session.

Founded six decades ago, the St. Damian Rehabilitation Center for Leprosy and Disability has empowered thousands of disabled Indonesians to improve their lives.

St. Augustine Church just celebrated Louis Armstrong's birth. The historic church endures amid parish closures and mergers and a shrinking Catholic footprint.

Br. Michael Perry was elected on July 15 to lead the largest province of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor in the United States.

Arguably the most influential Catholic monk since Thomas Merton, Brother David Steindl-Rast has carried Benedictine spirituality into the modern world. This week, he turned 100 years old.

The Kino Border Initiative's program "invite(s) people to lean into the complexity and all the discomfort that it brings," writes Sr. Eileen McKenzie.

In keeping with their charism of helping the downtrodden and outcast, the Dinasevanasabha nuns run the Infant Jesus Children's Home, a center for children with HIV/AIDS in Bengaluru, southern India.

"It's like a mobile coffee hour," said Capuchin Br. Paul Fesefeldt, founder and director of Capuchin Mobile Ministries. Prayers are available for those who want them.

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Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington said his decision to remove a high-profile priest as an archdiocesan exorcist was driven by the public way he exercised his ministry, not by his specific beliefs ...

Fr. Tom Reese continues his analysis of Magnifica Humanitas with Chapter 3, in which Pope Leo XIV applies Catholic social teaching to modern digital technology, arguing that AI should respect human di...

For decades, Sr. Cecilia Nguyen dedicated her life to forming young Catholics in the faith. Now, as she faces kidney failure and a lengthy wait for a transplant, she says the faith she spent years sha...

We have largely surrendered our limited temporal resources to algorithms, and the near-constant distraction of smartphones and social media threatens our spiritual flourishing and prayer lives, writes...

Fr. Crepin Martial Monga, vicar of St. John the Baptist Catholic Parish in Zémio, in southeastern Central African Republic, or CAR, was shot in the head on a road leading to his residence in Zemio in ...

Nuns manage an adoption center that has placed more than 1,000 orphans with families since its inception in 1974. "Our mission is to promote and protect life," Sr. Jain Augustine Adackkanattu, the cen...

"Our churches, our mosques, our synagogues, our places of worship will become democracy hubs," said Minister JaNaé Bates Imari, co-executive director of the interfaith group ISAIAH Minnesota.

A day after Pope Leo begged the group not to proceed with its illicit bishop consecration, the atmosphere was "a festive scene tinged with relief and charged with righteousness," writes NCR's Justin M...

"We can't allow the words of the Declaration of Independence to devolve into impotent platitudes. Following the example of Leo, we must incarnate its commitment to dignity, equality and flourishing in...

NCR Book Club: Vice President JD Vance's new book offers a window into why he decided to become Catholic but stops short of exploring how his newfound faith affects his worldview.

St. Benedict, father of Western monasticism, lived in a time of turmoil, probably much like our present time. Ten hallmarks help mold the Benedictine life he established, and they continue to be relev...

French Catholics attached to the traditional Latin Mass but loyal to Rome are expressing deep sadness after the Society of St. Pius X consecrated four bishops without papal approval, prompting the Vat...

Another Nicaraguan bishop remains missing after being apprehended by police, drawing a rebuke from the United States for the ongoing "attacks on religious freedom" in the increasingly authoritarian co...

Ordinary families are being asked to carry the costs of an energy system that enriches a few while leaving communities everywhere vulnerable to conflict, instability and rising prices.

The El Paso Diocese-run nonprofit is one of the largest providers of legal services for unaccompanied children. It says the U.S. is defying a court order.

In the face of decades of papal teachings about the reality and urgency of climate change, U.S. sisters have been leaders on environmental action. In contrast, U.S. bishops have largely not been creat...

"Decisions we make about culture — even the very structures we build — may well determine the shape of the next quarter millennium," Scott Hurd writes.

In a time when patriotism feels complicated, the World Cup has given us a chance to root for something overtly, unapologetically American. Until doing so — yet again — felt tainted.

"We are going to put their names on this paper and leave them here for Jesus," Fr. Raymond Riding said of family members and friends killed, hurt or missing in the recent disaster.

In her work for the pastoral care of migrants at the U.S. bishops' conference, Sr. Joanna Okereke leads workshops that "create awareness for the bishops to know these ministries exist, that these peop...

Even though New York's St. Vincent's Medical Center has shuttered, Seton Hall University historian Thomas Rzeznik says the hospital continues to provide important insights for other Catholic instituti...

Their enduring legacy is felt not only in the U.S. as the country marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Despite the fact that many Venezuelan faith leaders have been themselves impacted by the ongoing disaster, they’ve sprung into action to provide food, psychological support and other basic needs to th...

On the anniversary of a Supreme Court ruling reinstating the U.S. death penalty, faith leaders join calls for an end to the death penalty. But religion has also been present in support for capital pun...

After spending the morning praying for migrants on the island of Lampedusa, Italy, Pope Leo XIV celebrated the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence with the U.S. Ambassa...

Pope Leo XIV began a summer vacation on Sunday, capping a whirlwind finale to the first half of 2026 in which he emerged as a powerful global statesman on issues from artificial intelligence to war an...

St. Agnes in St. Paul is not affiliated with SSPX, but parishioners said they were saddened by the schism and would continue to pray for a united church.

One deacon was also cited in the sixth of seven such investigations into the handling of abuse in each of Michigan's Catholic dioceses. The report cites 104 victims, with most cases before 2002.

Mexican soccer fans have prayed for World Cup success at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City, where the faithful dressed a Christ Child in the country's official soccer kit.

Leo, who said religion must never justify discrimination, symbolically took up the mantle of his predecessor, who placed migration at the center of his pontificate by visiting the island in July 2013.

"As every American knows, the path to building a society that would embody those high ideals of liberty and justice for all was not always easy and, in many respects, is still a work in progress," the...

Sr. Benedetta Nya Moe provided medical care, food and nutrition to displaced people.

Sr. Anita Cleary's pilgrimage to El Salvador and Honduras was a tangible experience of memory, truth and responsibility.

On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear hosts Scripture scholar Wes Howard-Brook discussing biblical literacy and finding the Creator in creation.

"I'm not a hearing officer, I have nothing to do with the whole process," Sr. Rose Kuhn tells unaccompanied minors facing deportation in court. "I'm here to accompany you."

There is room for everybody within the church's embrace. Except those who refuse the embrace. It appears the Vatican has finally lost patience with these antisemitic, post-liberal, cafeteria and now f...

Leo, who said religion must never justify discrimination, symbolically took up the mantle of his predecessor, who placed migration at the center of his pontificate by visiting the island in July 2013.

"Raising the moral questions at the boardroom level is so important because you don't know what the impact would be if those questions weren't on the table," said Sr. Susan Francois.