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June 26, 2020

Trump’s order on foster care backs partnerships with faith-based agencies

President Donald Trump June 24 called for creating partnerships between state agencies and public, private, faith-based and community organizations "to help keep families together and, when that is not possible, to find children forever families."
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June 25, 2020

Catechesis is about a relationship, not just information, Vatican says

Teaching the faith is a work of evangelization meant to lead people to a deeper relationship with Jesus and not just impart information, said the updated "Directory for Catechesis."
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June 24, 2020

Bishops praise Bolivians who seize drug-trafficking plane at airstrip

Bishops in Bolivia's Amazon region praised residents of a small town who seized a light plane, apparently owned by drug traffickers, that had violated their ban on landing at the local airstrip.
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June 23, 2020

Catholic faith shapes Phil Klay and bestselling war author’s writing

“I think a Catholic worldview inflects how I think about sin, about fallibility, about ritual and community and suffering, about being a physical body in the world, but also about being more than mere matter,” Phil Klay said.
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June 23, 2020

Young people call DACA ruling good news, but know battle not over

On June 18, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling said President Donald Trump could not stop the program with his 2017 executive order.
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June 22, 2020

American raised in Philadelphia among victims stabbed in England

An American who attended Catholic schools in Philadelphia was among three friends stabbed to death in a suspected terror attack in England.
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June 22, 2020

Racial issues need ‘honest discussion,’ not destruction, says San Francisco archbishop

San Francisco's archbishop said June 20 the "toppling and defacing" of a statue of St. Junipero Serra and other statues in the city's Golden Gate Park is the latest example of some people using the current movement against racial injustice as a reason for violence, looting and vandalism.
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June 22, 2020

Retired pope returns to Vatican after visiting his brother in Germany

Retired Pope Benedict XVI returned to the Vatican June 22, five days after flying to Germany to spend time with his ailing, 96-year-old brother.
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June 19, 2020

Turkish bishops won’t contest plan to turn ancient cathedral into a mosque

Catholic bishops in Turkey pledged not to contest plans to turn Istanbul's ancient Hagia Sophia cathedral that now serves as a museum into a Muslim place of worship.
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June 18, 2020

High court rules against Trump administration’s plan to end DACA

In one of the most anticipated cases of the term, the Supreme Court June 18 ruled against efforts by the Trump administration to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA.
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June 18, 2020

Retired pope travels to Germany to visit his ailing brother

Retired Pope Benedict XVI, who is 93 years old, traveled to Germany to visit his ailing older brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, who is 96.
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June 17, 2020

Supreme Court stops Texas execution for inmate’s religious liberty

The U.S. Supreme Court granted a last-minute stay of execution for Texas death-row inmate Ruben Gutierrez June 16, saying the state prison officials need to reexamine their rule that bans clergy from being with prisoners to the execution chamber.
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