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Cardinal Robert McElroy, the Archbishop of Washington, has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, describing the rounding up and deportation of immigrants as “inhumane” ...
Washington moved to close a dangerous loophole. Now there’s a constitutional showdown pitting religious freedoms against the ...
At the White House press briefing on July 17, EWTN White House Correspondent Owen Jenson asked White House Press Secretary ...
The Department of Justice had lent its support to Catholic leaders who said the new law would force them to choose between ...
The Chicago Sun-Times found that more than 70 Catholic clerics in Illinois collectively gave over $50,000 to political ...
NCR readers respond to stories about women in the church, a new bishop and the USCCB's reaction to the Trump presidency.
The first American pope arrives at the papal summer retreat to work on his encyclical, with suggestions it should avoid politics and focus on religious liberty and vocations.
Catholics have a new Pope, and for the first time in the church's history, it's an American. It took the College of Cardinals only two days to elect U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost as the successor ...
One of the Catholic Church’s most senior American figures has condemned President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, warning that the U.S. is descending into an era of fear and division. Speaking ...
President Donald Trump reportedly confronted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a military strike on a Catholic ...
Pope Leo called for an end to the "barbarity of war" on Sunday (July 20) as he spoke of his profound pain over an Israeli ...
Pope Francis was critical of the Trump administration’s policies, particularly on immigration. On Monday, Catholic cardinals set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect a new pope.