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WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump announced his administration's new guidance on prayer in public schools during a Jan. 16 event in the Oval Office on National Religious Freedom Day.

​​​​​​​ VATICAN CITY-- Protecting human life is the "preeminent" social and political issue, Pope Francis said, and he asked the head of the U.S. bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities to convey his support to the pro-life community.

ROME -- The Catholic Church needs leaders who are willing to listen, learn, be healed and to serve and proclaim boldly what God has done in their lives, said Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

WASHINGTON -- A new study says that while most Californians support the redefinition of marriage and the family, they choose intact marriages and traditional families.

Students responded to the surprise news of the closure of San Francisco’s Mercy High School at the end of this academic year by announcing a $5 million fundraising effort to help sustain the school for the short term.

The church in Vietnam reports that an increasing number of younger people in urban areas are opting to remain single for life. "I fear marriage may make my life boring," a 39-year-old single woman said.

"Duterte’s anti-drug campaign remains as brutal as when it started, with drug suspects being killed regularly across the country," said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch.

VATICAN CITY -- While often persecuted and misunderstood, the church never tires of announcing the love of God made present in Jesus Christ, Pope Francis said Wednesday.

Patients who are terminally ill do not have a right to physician-assisted suicide, but their doctors can provide information and advise about medical aid in dying, a Massachusetts court has ruled.

U.S. Sens. Benjamin Cardin and Christopher Van Hollen, both Maryland Democrats, joined Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore and other local faith leaders to call for increased federal funding to strengthen security at religious sites amid a recent rise in anti-Semitic attacks.

Despite recent studies that indicate a rise in secularism, bishops must continue to give witness to God's love by laying down their lives for their flocks, said Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas.

Brother Andrew knows his way around a kitchen. In fact, he was crowned this year's baking champion on ABC's "The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition." The program, which aired during the month of December and concluded Jan. 2, is an adaptation of the wildly popular "Great British Bake Off."

The crowds following Jesus during his lifetime said he taught with "authority" because he lived what he preached, Pope Francis said. "Authority is seen in this: coherence and witness," the pope said Jan. 14 during his early morning Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae.

GAZA CITY -- With fewer than 1,000 Christians in a population of 1.8 million, the Christian population in Palestine’s Gaza Strip today is less than half of what it was 10 years ago.

VATICAN CITY -- At the request of retired Pope Benedict XVI, his name will be removed as co-author of a book defending priestly celibacy, said Cardinal Robert Sarah, the Vatican official who coordinated work on the book. "However," he said, "the full text remains absolutely unchanged."

Filipino pop music filled Patron’s Hall at St. Mary’s Cathedral Jan. 11 as hundreds gathered over roast pig to celebrate Sinulog-Santo Niño, a festival honoring the Child Jesus.

St. Francis de Sales School in Riverside got an unexpected gift from its most famous alum just before Christmas.

JERUSALEM – In addition to a sense of isolation, young people in the Gaza Strip are experiencing an unemployment rate of 70 percent, and most see emigration as their only solution, said Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese of the Military Services.

Rose Rea's name may be on the cover of the book, but she downplays her role in the creation of "Spirit and Life: The Holy Sacraments of the Catholic Church," published by Sophia Institute Press.

The California Catholic Conference is pushing for the passage of legislation that would give parents more control over the sexual health education of their children in public elementary schools.