Catholic Church

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a woman who interrupted a Christmas carol rehearsal to perform a topless act of "aborting Jesus" was exercising her right to freedom of expression.

A stolen relic in France that is said to contain the blood of Christ has been returned after the thieves apparently grew fearful of keeping such a revered object.

The archbishop of San Francisco says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will no longer be able to receive communion until she repents of and repudiates her “advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion.”

A Michigan-based Catholic diocese has instructed its priests to deny Catholic sacraments such as baptism and communion to trans-identified or nonbinary individuals unless they repent for rejecting their biological sex.

After months of public debate over whether to deny the Eucharist to President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other elected officials who back abortion rights, the U.S. Catholic bishops approved a document clarifying their teaching on Communion on Wednesday (Nov. 17) that only gestures to politicians.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will vote this week on a proposed document outlining the meaning of communion.

Last year, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops decided to start documenting and tracking vandalism at Catholic sites across the country. Since the USCCB began tracking the events, they have found more than 105 incidents of vandalism of Catholic sites in the U.S.

A Vatican census released ahead of World Mission Day reveals growing numbers of Catholics in what Pope Francis often refers to as “the global peripheries,” even as the number of believers continues to diminish in Europe.

An embattled Catholic religious order accused of hiding almost $300 million in offshore accounts denied any wrongdoing in an online statement, declaring that it did not evade taxes and complied with international accounting standards.

Pope Francis encouraged young climate change activists attending an event in Italy to promote human relationships and environmental protections by overcoming divisions.