A U.K. court has ruled children are unable to consent to taking drugs to change gender, in a landmark case welcomed by Catholic doctors and a bishop.

The Catholic Medical Association and three other physician-led organizations have expressed concern about the use of “abortion-derived fetal cells” in the development of some vaccines.

University of Notre Dame in Indiana and founding dean of the university’s Keough School of Global Affairs says Pope Francis is the prophet we’ve been waiting for on many issues.

As the coronavirus pandemic upended normal activities and routines across the United States, Catholic parishes, schools and organizations had to quickly, and continuously, find ways to adapt.

Few poets writing in the English language are more beloved than Gerard Manley Hopkins whose Victorian-era poetry celebrated nature as divine creation.

Second Sunday of Advent
First reading: Is 40:1-5, 9-11
Second reading: 2 Pt 3:8-14
Gospel: Mk 1:1-8

The U.S. government’s foreign aid agency awarded thousands of dollars in assistance to two Rome-based Catholic organizations assisting the poor in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.

En una de las regiones de El Salvador más afectadas por una guerra sangrienta financiada con dólares estadounidenses, cuatro mujeres católicas de Estados Unidos fueron elogiadas como ejemplos de solidaridad, fe cristiana, y martirio. Así las recordaron los salvadoreños el 2 de diciembre en el aniversario 40 de su asesinato.