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Catholic communications in the Archdiocese of San Francisco won big in the Catholic Press Association's 2020 awards competition July 2. Catholic San Francisco received more than a dozen awards, while the archdiocesan website was named Best Diocesan Website and director of communications Mike Brown was named Communications Director of the Year.

The Archdiocese of San Francisco is pledging to comply with San Francisco public health orders barring indoor public Masses and limiting outdoor services, including funerals, to 12 people after it received a cease-and-desist order from the city attorney's office.

While America grapples with racism and bigotry and other social ills, Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory said people must reach out to one another, learn about others different from themselves and rediscover that all religions teach that hatred is wrong.

Catholics can use the weapons of faith to expel racism from society, black Catholic leaders said on Wednesday at an online forum on the future of the United States.

Holy See Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin met with the ambassadors of the United States and Israel June 30 to express concern over Israeli actions that could jeopardize Middle East peace.

As Congo celebrated 60 years of independence from Belgium, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa said the "great dreams" of the people had been shuttered by successive regimes.

A federal judge ruled late June 30 the Trump administration unlawfully implemented its 2019 policy to turn away asylum-seekers if they don't first seek protection in countries along their way to the United States.

The consensus from religious liberty advocates following the June 30 Supreme Court ruling on public funds and sectarian schools is the Blaine amendments, a hated remnant of 19th-century anti-Catholic bigotry, are finally gone for good.

Pope Francis sent condolences and assured his prayers to emeritus Pope Benedict XVI after his brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, died July 1 at the age of 96.

A woman in Texas says that her husband was denied treatment for COVID-19, was moved to a hospice, and then starved for six days after a doctor decided that his quality of life did not merit care due to his preexisting disabilities. 

Pilgrims can walk the Camino de Santiago once again as the pilgrimage’s destination, the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, reopened its doors Wednesday.

Many of the country's leading pro-life advocates said the U.S. Supreme Court's June 29 ruling striking down a Louisiana abortion law puts women's health in danger, allows subpar care of women and gives abortion clinics a pass on "commonsense regulations" for "the sake of profit."

Mexico's bishops have expressed alarm over the scope of the COVID-19 crisis, which they say is continuing to expand across the country even as health authorities allow the gradual resumption of economic activity.

Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun has said that while he will remain prudent, he is prepared to suffer arrest and trials under Hong Kong's sweeping new national security law.

The national motto "e pluribus unum" ("out of many, one") can serve as an inspiration of the ideal of unity amid diversity "in an age marked by conflicts and polarization from which the Catholic community itself is not immune," the pope said in a June 30 message sent to participants of the Catholic Media Conference.

Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez in a recent column wrote "I understand the deep pain being expressed by some native peoples in California. But I also believe Fray Junipero is a saint for our times, the spiritual founder of Los Angeles, a champion of human rights, and this country's first Hispanic saint."

Normally, the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood feed about 200 children in Nairobi's informal settlements of Kawangware and Riruta. But with the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, the sisters are expanding their reach.

A Catholic teacher at Serra High School who finished a pilgrimage to the Spanish Missions in California this week has emphasized his devotion to the first missions’ founder, Saint Junipero Serra, and their influence on him as an educator.

The Chinese government is forcing Uyghur women to take contraceptives in an effort to stop their population growth, in a campaign one expert called "a slow, painful, creeping genocide."

Federal executions are set to resume in the next two weeks after the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the new execution protocol.