An expert witness has testified that the slayings of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador in 1989 was "premeditated" and preceded by campaigns to discredit the Catholic Church and the Society of Jesus.

El Papa Francisco momentos después de rezar la oración del Ángelus, expresó su pesar por Santa Sofía en Turquía.

While commemorating the International Day of the Sea during his Sunday Angelus address July 12, the pope told pilgrims in St. Peter's Square that "the sea carries me a little farther away in my thoughts: to Istanbul." "I think of Hagia Sophia, and I am very saddened," he said.

An early morning fire on July 11, 2020, broke out at the San Gabriel Mission Saturday, completely destroying the 249-year-old church’s roof, reported Pablo Kay in Angelus News. The fire was reported around 4:30 a.m. and appears to have broken out in the rear of the church.

Servant of God Eusebio Francesco Chini (known as Kino), an Italian Jesuit priest who was born on August 10, 1645, in Segno, and died in Magdalena, Mexico, on 15 March 1711;

El Observador Permanente de la Santa Sede ante las Naciones Unidas asegura que “estamos ante un desafío de la civilización a favor del bien común que requiere un cambio de perspectiva hacia el rostro humano de las emergencias climáticas". Además puntualiza que "la solidaridad no es una cuestión opcional, sino fundamental de justicia".

Pope Francis names three new members of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, who hail from Chile, Italy, and Nigeria.

Twenty schools in the Archdiocese of New York will not reopen in the fall because of the financial fallout caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Staff at the Pope John XXIII hospital in Bergamo -- once the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy -- announced they had no more patients with coronavirus in their intensive care unit.

An international virtual pilgrimage to the sanctuary of Lourdes, France, will "affirm the power of prayer" against COVID-19, said the shrine's vice rector.

Se espera que durante la segunda semana de julio, el presidente Donald Trump presente de nuevo documentación para poner fin al programa de Acción Diferida para Llegados en la Infancia, o DACA.

Denunciando el inimaginable "infierno" que viven los inmigrantes en los centros de detención, el papa Francisco instó a todos los cristianos a analizar si están ayudando a las personas que Dios ha puesto en su camino --tal como lo ordenó Jesús-- y cómo lo están haciendo.

"St. Katharine Drexel used to say, 'We go in to go out,'" said Father Stephen Thorne, pastor of St. Martin de Porres in North Philadelphia. "What she meant was that (our time with) the Blessed Sacrament gives us the energy to go forth and do justice."

There are certain place names so associated with a particular chapter in history that merely mentioning them conjures up a truckload of associations and emotions. Such is “Gettysburg,” “Dunkirk,” “Robben Island,” even “Woodstock” – and, increasingly, such is “Lampedusa,” as we mark the seventh anniversary of one of the briefest and yet most paradigmatic papal trips of all time.

Two USCCB committee chairmen applaud a US Supreme Court ruling in favour of the Little Sisters of the Poor in a long-running dispute over a contraception mandate.

Father Michael White, pastor of the Church of the Nativity in Timonium, Maryland, and his associate Tom Corcoran are the authors of the best-selling Rebuilt Parish series, as well as "ChurchMoney: Rebuilding the Way We Fund Our Mission."

"This feels real," he said. "The diversity of people coming together for the common good … the empathy is there, people are invested in this."

Drawing from the example of the late Sister Thea Bowman, the only African American member of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, and the U.S. bishops' 2018 pastoral letter on racism, the two bishops of Mississippi denounced racism as "a plague among us."

Two U.S. bishops said they welcomed the Supreme Court's 7-2 ruling July 8 which said California Catholic schools could not be sued for job discrimination in firing teachers. The bishops said the decision "rightly acknowledged" the limit on state authority.

In a 7-2 decision July 8, the Supreme Court upheld regulations by the Trump administration giving employers more ability to opt out of providing contraceptive coverage in their health plans. Court upholds contraceptive exemption for Little Sisters of Poor.