| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.06.2026 | Once roiled by sexual abuse issue, Southern Baptist leadership now downplays its extent | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By PETER SMITH
Four years ago, the Southern Baptist Convention received a landmark report asserting that top leaders in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination had long minimized reports of se... |
| 26.05.2026 | Pope Leo XIV’s First Encyclical Casts AI as Defining Challenge of Our Era | By Shannon Harwood
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| 13.04.2026 | Many US Catholics are dismayed by Trump’s unprecedented broadside at the first American pope | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By DAVID CRARY, PETER SMITH and STEVE PEOPLES
WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of U.S. Catholic voters supported Donald Trump in his 2024 presidential victory. Yet across the broad Catholic political s... |
| 29.01.2026 | Trump battles Minneapolis shooting fallout as agents put on leave | MINNEAPOLIS: The Trump administration said Wednesday (Jan 28) that two immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of a civilian in Minneapolis had been placed on leave, as the president slammed the city’s mayor despite a promise to d... |
| 14.01.2026 | New DHS rule aims to shorten visa wait times abroad for religious workers serving US congregations | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By TIFFANY STANLEY and GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO
WASHINGTON (AP) — At a time of tightening immigration restrictions, the Department of Homeland Security is attempting to make it easier for visa-holding re... |
| 30.12.2025 | US faith leaders supporting targeted immigrants brace for a tough year ahead | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By DAVID CRARY, GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, LUIS ANDRES HENAO and TIFFANY STANLEY, Associated Press
For faith leaders supporting and ministering to anxious immigrants across the United States, 2025 was fra... |
| 11.11.2025 | US Catholic bishops will elect a new leader and contend with Trump’s immigration tactics | By TIFFANY STANLEY, Associated Press
The United States’ Catholic bishops will elect their next president and vice president on Tuesday in Baltimore. The vote acts as a barometer for the bishops’ priorities, hinging on whether they choose an... |
| 10.11.2025 | Veterans Day: What’s open, what’s closed | Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Veterans Day holiday began more than a century ago, albeit under a different name, as a celebration of the end of World War I. Over time its name and purpose evolved into a day of recognition for U.S. ... |
| 21.10.2025 | Pope Leo meets survivors of clergy abuse, pledges to listen and act | VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo met survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy for the first time on Monday (Oct 20), days after a Vatican report accused senior bishops of failing to support victims or punish negligent church leaders.
The hour-lon... |
| 23.09.2025 | Decades after the hit horror film, demand for exorcists on the rise | She levitates above her chair. An old man hurls a priest across the room. A young woman speaks full paragraphs in Bulgarian, a language she’s never studied. A man’s skin blisters at the sight of a crucifix.
In interviews with The Baltimore ... |
| 18.08.2025 | Appeals court overturns order that stripped some protections from pregnant Texas state workers | The Texas case differed from other lawsuits that have narrowly focused on federal regulations stating that abortion, fertility treatments and birth control are medical issues requiring protection under the new law. The lawsuit, filed by Tex... |
| 09.07.2025 | A surprise IRS move on political endorsements leaves faith leaders and legal experts divided | Speaking to reporters Wednesday, President Donald Trump called the IRS’ assessment “terrific.”
“I love the fact that churches can endorse a political candidate,” he said. “We have a lot of respect for the people that lead the church.”
While... |
| 21.04.2025 | CNA Explains: What happens when a pope dies? | Listen
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| 04.04.2025 | A Church's Triumph: Turning Hate into Hope | In a world where symbols often wield power, a historic Black church has turned the tables on hate. The Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, a beacon of resilience in Washington, D.C., has taken control of the Proud Boys' tradema... |
| 01.04.2025 | Most immigrants at risk of deportation from US are Christian, report finds | Other groups that helped produce the report include the National Association of Evangelicals, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration and the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological ... |
| 28.02.2025 | National Politics | Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic, acknowledges the pope’s criticism of US immigration crackdown | Vance, on social media, had defended the administration’s America-first policies by citing centuries-old teachings on “ordo amoris,” or the order of love, saying people must prioritize their families and those closest to them. Francis, in a... |
| 20.02.2025 | National Politics | Judge won’t immediately block Trump administration’s abrupt halt to Catholic refugee funding | The bishops are asking him to prohibit the U.S. State Department from enforcing a Jan. 24 suspension of millions of dollars in aid, saying it has affected nearly 7,000 newly arrived refugees.
The bishops say that withholding millions in res... |
| 18.02.2025 | National Politics | US Catholic bishops sue Trump administration for halt in funding for refugee settlement | The conference is trying to keep the program going, but it’s “financially unsustainable,” he said, adding that it’s trying to hold the U.S. government to its “moral and legal commitments.”
The conference is one of 10 national agencies, most... |
| 13.02.2025 | National Politics | Given Christianity’s dominance in US, Trump raises eyebrows with anti-Christian bias initiative | “There’s a struggle for the soul of America,” said Ledewitz, who studies the relationship between constitutional law and religion. “We call this a culture war, but it’s very deep,” animated by the charge “that you people, the Democrats, you... |
| 11.02.2025 | Pope rebukes Trump administration over migrant deportations, and appears to take direct aim at Vance | “That said, the act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women,... |
| 06.02.2025 | National Politics | A short honeymoon for Catholics in D.C. as Vice President Vance clashes with bishops on migration | The Catholic rift comes as leading bishops applauded some of the new Trump administration initiatives. Statements from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops welcomed executive orders supporting “ school choice,” rolling back federal suppo... |
| 29.01.2025 | National Politics | Refugee resettlement agencies scramble after Trump orders them to halt their federally funded work | “We’re not getting any useful guidance from the government right now,” said Mark Hetfield, president of HIAS, the Jewish refugee resettlement agency. Most of the organization’s budget is from federal funding.
“We will fight the government o... |
| 23.01.2025 | National Politics | Trump won’t ban immigration arrests at churches. Now clergy are weighing how to resist | “Our work now is bigger than simply opening the door of the church for one or two people to stay,” Hynicka said. “Sanctuary has to be a value that we extend to one another through our policies, through the laws we enact.”
Other clergy minis... |
| 24.12.2024 | The Battle Over Abortion Pills: A New Front in the Culture War | The landscape of abortion in America is shifting. As the dust settles from the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, a new battleground emerges: abortion pills. These medications, particularly mifepristone and misoprostol, are b... |
| 24.12.2024 | National Politics | Trump vows to pursue executions after Biden commutes most of federal death row | Is it a plan in motion or more rhetoric?
On the campaign trail, Trump often called for expanding the federal death penalty — including for those who kill police officers, those convicted of drug and human trafficking, and migrants who kill ... |
| 23.12.2024 | Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates before Trump can resume executions | “These are among the worst killers in the world and this abhorrent decision by Joe Biden is a slap in the face to the victims, their families, and their loved ones.” said Trump spokesman Steven Cheung. “President Trump stands for the rule o... |
| 13.11.2024 | National Politics | As US Catholic bishops meet, Trump looms over their work on abortion and immigration | His anti-abortion rhetoric has been mixed: While Trump has taken credit for the end of federal abortion rights, he has waffled on the concept of a national abortion ban and said abortion policies should be left to the states to decide.
On i... |
| 13.09.2024 | National Politics | Pope slams Harris and Trump on anti-life stances, urges Catholics to vote for ‘lesser evil’ | Francis has made the plight of migrants a priority of his pontificate and speaks out emphatically and frequently about it. While strongly upholding church teaching forbidding abortion, Francis has not emphasized church doctrine as much as h... |
| 28.08.2024 | The Crossroads of Life and Death: Medical Tourism for Assisted Dying | In the quiet corners of Vermont and Oregon, a profound shift is taking place. People are traveling across state lines, not for vacation or adventure, but for a final act of autonomy. They seek assisted dying, a choice that has become a cont... |
| 23.08.2024 | Health | Traveling to die: The latest form of medical tourism | At least 26 people have traveled to Vermont to die, representing nearly 25% of the reported assisted deaths in the state from May 2023 through this June, according to the Vermont Department of Health. In Oregon, 23 out-of-state residents di... |
| 05.07.2024 | Vatican excommunicates ex-ambassador to U.S., Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, declares him guilty of schism | A firebrand conservative who became one of Pope Francis' most ardent critics has been excommunicated by the Vatican.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who once served as the Vatican's ambassador to the U.S., was found guilty of schism. The Vat... |
| 01.03.2024 | Lawmaker undergoing IVF wants Texas to protect fertility treatments | A lawmaker from North Texas who's pursuing fertility treatments is challenging Gov. Greg Abbott to enshrine into law the right to in vitro fertilization.
Why it matters: After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos created thro... |
| 22.02.2024 | Health | The powerful constraints on medical care in Catholic hospitals across America | Rachana Pradhan, Hannah Recht | KFF Health News (TNS)
Nurse midwife Beverly Maldonado recalls a pregnant woman arriving at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Maryland after her water broke. It was weeks before the baby would have any chance ... |
| 07.02.2024 | UCSF Health to make $100 million acquisition of two hospitals | UCSF Health this week said it has signed a $100 million agreement to take over control of Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and St. Mary's Medical Center, two struggling community hospitals in San Francisco.
Why it matters: The acquisition ai... |
| 18.02.2023 | Ron DeSantis styles himself a culture warrior for God. But his push to expand the death penalty is 'deeply concerning' to the Catholic Church. | Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at First Presbyterian Church in Orlando, Florida. Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
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| 12.07.2022 | Faith-based investors are left in a bind after companies from Apple to Tesla pledge to cover abortion travel costs for employees | Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don’t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations.
For money managers who invest billions of dollars in accordance with faith-based teachings, the toppling of the ha... |
| 14.06.2022 | A Campaign of Fire and Broken Glass | This week brings another opportunity for President Joe Biden and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to show that they are not as partisan and ideological as they often appear to be. Will the executive branch equally enforce the law? The ... |
| 27.09.2021 | AssetMark Financial : Knights of Columbus RIA Builds More Ties Between Faith and Wealth | Amid growing links between investors' faith and their money, a Catholic fraternal benefit society aims to work with RIAs by offering proprietary model portfolios using its ESG screens.
The Knights of Columbus Asset Advisors and wealth manag... |
| 22.07.2021 | A Catholic church official was forced to resign after a Catholic media outlet accused him of being a frequent Grindr user and a regular at gay bars | Wisconsin-based priest Jeffrey Burrill has resigned from his position at the administrative body of the US Catholic church. NurPhoto / Getty Images
Wisconsin-based priest Jeffrey Burrill resigned after records of his activity on gay hookup ... |
| 19.07.2021 | Catholic bishops’ effort to deny Biden communion risks alienating church members, a majority of whom support abortion rights | Some Catholic bishops have expressed interest in denying President Joe Biden, a practicing Catholic, Communion over his abortion stance. Matthew Pasant, Contributor/Getty Images; Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Some US Catholic bishops expressed... |
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| 19.06.2021 | How Biden's chances of receiving Communion are in jeopardy because of his abortion stance | President Joe Biden departs St Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church in Wilmington, Delaware, on April 18, 2021 after attending the confirmation of grandson Hunter Biden, son of the late Beau Biden. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images This s... |
| 21.05.2021 | The popemobile is going electric for the first time, thanks to EV maker Fisker | Pope Francis approved plans for a new electric popemobile made by Fisker.
The modified Ocean SUV will feature an all-glass cupola for maximum visibility
When Pope Francis took over the papacy he opted for a Hyundai popemobile.
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| 19.04.2021 | The Catholic Church is urging President Biden to accept a lot more refugees | A Jesus on the cross is seen as Catholic priests of Saint Charles Missions from Latin America, the US and Canada gather to pray at the US-Mexico border fence in solidarity to migrants and against hate and indifference, in Tijuana, Baja Cali... |
| 28.03.2021 | The Catholic Church silently lobbied against a suicide prevention hotline in the US because it included LGBT resources | The US Conference of Catholic Bishops stood against the creation of the National Suicide Hotline.
The group opposed the hotline in 2019 because it provided resources to LGBTQ+ people.
Leadership of the organization stood against the Violenc... |
| 15.03.2021 | LGBTQ Catholics worry that Pope Francis’ decree on same-sex unions could drive more away from the church | Pope Francis at a Mass in March 2021. Tiziana Fabi/Pool via REUTERS
The Vatican said on Monday that Catholic priests can’t bless same-sex unions.
LGBTQ Catholics and advocates told Insider the decree was “deeply saddening.”
The Vatican stat... |
| 03.03.2021 | Bishops urge Catholics to avoid the Johnson & Johnson vaccine if possible because it was developed using cells from an aborted fetus | A researcher with a box containing vials of human embryonic stem-cell cultures from the freezer at the Burnham Institute in 2004 in La Jolla, California. Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images
US Catholic bishops are asking people to seek vaccines oth... |
| 03.03.2021 | Bishops urge Catholics to avoid J&J vaccine because it was developed using cells from aborted foetus | A researcher holds a box containing vials of human embryonic Stem Cell cultures from the freezer at the Burnham Institute on November 3, 2004 in La Jolla, California.
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US Catholic bishops released a statement urgi... |
| 09.04.2020 | For Some Churches, SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program Is Better Than Bingo | Much as I admire religious institutions, I get depressed by the extent to which they collectively behave as an industry jealous of its special privileges while not wanting to miss out on anything. Thus the celebratory tone of this release- ... |
| 01.04.2020 | Online Prayer Platforms Are Booming In the COVID-19 Era — and VCs are Getting Religion | When Pope Francis delivered a special prayer in advance of Easter this past Friday, he did so to a hauntingly empty St. Peter's Square in the Vatican.
A tiny figure in white, the leader of the Catholic Church's address is a particularly dra... |
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| 07.10.2017 | Catholic church in Hillcrest offers outstretched hand to LGBT community with special mass | Kyle Escobar-Humphries made it a point to attend mass Saturday morning at St. John The Evangelist Catholic Church.
Located in the heart of Hillcrest, the historic epicenter of the gay community in San Diego, St. John’s hosted a special serv... |
| 06.01.2016 | Gun Control Is a Pro-Life Value | President Barack Obama’s decision this week to use his executive authority to act on gun control might be controversial here at home, but it has at least one fan abroad: Pope Francis. During Francis’s speech to Congress last September, he l... |
| 24.09.2015 | Move Over, Billy Joel: Pope Francis Is The Hottest Ticket In Town | Pope Francis waves as he approaches St. Patrick's Cathedral to lead evening prayers in New York on... [+] September 24, 2015. AFP PHOTO / VINCENZO PINTO (Photo credit should read VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images) |
| 04.08.2014 | Pope Francis and the New Values Debate | Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia broke some big news recently when he announced that Pope Francis would make his first trip to the United States next September. While the Vatican has not officially confirmed the visit, it’s widely ... |
| 18.09.2013 | Understanding the lawsuits surrounding ACA’s birth control coverage requirements | With high emotions and vast implications, the cases challenging the contraception coverage mandate raise fundamental questions:
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| - | Why Asian Americans on Wall Street from Goldman Sachs to Wells Fargo are breaking their silence | Assaults and harassment against Asian Americans, a group comprising some 23 million people in the U.S., have brought AAPI issues to the national stage for the first time since the murder of Vincent Chin in 1982.
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| - | Understanding the lawsuits surrounding ACA’s birth control coverage requirements | Even with so much attention focused on the Oct. 1 launch of the health law’s state insurance exchanges, one of the Affordable Care Act’s most controversial elements is still percolating through the nation’s legal system. The Department of H... |
| - | Rally backs nationwide call for religious freedom | Hawaii Family Forum, Hawaii Family Advocates and the Hawaii Catholic Conference are sponsoring the Rally for Religious Liberty at the state Capitol June 30 to protest federal health care mandates on church-affiliated institutions.
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