New data estimates show the number of abortions in the US remained stable in 2025, totalling some 1.126 million, with apparent declines in out-of-state travel for abortions offset by increasing access to telehealth abortions.

Pope Leo XIV led tens of thousands of Angolan Catholics in praying the rosary 19 April at southern Africa's most visited Catholic shrine, calling the pilgrimage site a place where "the heart of the church" is "alive and beating."

On 9 May, Sydney answers one of its most important calls and it begins, as it should, with the shepherd of the city's Catholic community.

"The voices in the bushes." That is the fear that defines daily life for many residents of this city in Cameroon’s troubled Anglophone region.

Time magazine has named Pope Leo XIV to its "100 Most Influential People of 2026" list.

Pope Leo XIV celebrated an outdoor Mass for an estimated 100,000 Catholics in Angola on Sunday, 19 April, urging the faithful of a nation still bearing the scars of a decades-long civil war to find renewed hope in the Eucharist and the Risen Christ.

The Trump administration has canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami for sheltering unaccompanied migrant children, leaving just three months to place an unspecified number of children.