Catholic Church

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.

Canada’s 90 Roman Catholic bishops have “unequivocally” apologized for that church’s role in the Indian Residential School system that about 150,000 of the country’s Indigenous people were forced to attend, where they often suffered emotional, psychological, physical and sexual abuse.

Pope Francis has accepted a request from German Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki for a six-month break from his duties as archbishop of the Diocese of Cologne in order to deal with his “grave mistakes” in handling the sexual abuse cases.

Last week, Pope Francis condemned abortion as "murder" while also urging the church to be "compassionate" on the issue.