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After a night of protests and vandalism April 11 in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, following the police shooting of Daunte Wright, Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis urged prayers for justice and peace.

Women religious have long ministered to people experiencing homeless or inadequate housing. They operate shelters and assistance programs designed to help people stay off the streets. But rather than wait for a tsunami of evictions on the other side of the moratorium, some sisters have started organizing fundraisers for rent and utility relief, hoping to help renters chip away at their growing bills.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a 5-4 decision that California's ban on at-home worship for Bible study groups or prayer groups violates the First Amendment's guarantee of the free exercise of religion.

As a Presbyterian teen in the southern Oregon town of Medford, Judy Crowe would walk past Sacred Heart Church on the way to school. The sturdy brick church and the children in tidy uniforms intrigued her.

Taking the annual celebration of the Last Supper as a focal point, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix released a landmark document April 1 on the centrality of the Eucharist in the life of the church.

As the U.S. took in almost 19,000 migrant children, labeled "unaccompanied minors," in March, faith-based organizations such as Catholic Charities throughout the U.S. have been doing their part to help.

Mark Hublar, a member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in New Albany is a motivational speaker advocating for employment of those with disabilities.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take on a case next term from Kentucky's attorney general, who is seeking to defend the state's abortion law that was struck down by a lower court.

Results of a Gallup poll released March 29 show that just 47% of U.S. adults belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque in 2020. This is the first time the percentage has dropped below 50% in Gallup's eight decades of doing this particular poll.

After U.S. President Joe Biden's inauguration, the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Laredo, Texas, staff wondered if their immigration work would change quickly.

Sister Ann Kendrick might not be able to dunk a basketball, but she still made it on the Magic Vision screen at center court of Amway Arena in Orlando, Florida.

In his new 240-page work, just published by Henry Holt, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput tackles life's central questions: why we're here, how we can "live and die meaningfully" and "the important things we Christians should be willing to die for."

The eviction moratorium put in place by the Centers for Disease Control has been extended three months, until June 30.

As the U.S. marks Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in April, the Diocese of San Jose, California, issued a statement March 29 in support of those communities, given a spate of crimes throughout the country targeting them.

Father Jorge Ortiz-Garay of Brooklyn, the first U.S. priest to die from complications of COVID-19, was recalled as "a good and saintly priest" by his bishop during a bilingual Mass marking the first anniversary of his death.

The Mexican bishops' migrant ministry says people are arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border with illusions of easily entering the United States, but they risk being returned to Mexico under rules for expelling people rapidly during the pandemic.

Transforming communities to become more inclusive and accepting places must begin at the parish level, Bishop Oscar Solis of Salt Lake City told CNA. 

Officer Eric Talley, an 11-year veteran of the Boulder Police Department, was the first to arrive at the scene of a mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store the afternoon of March 22 and the first of 10 to be killed.

Gov. Ralph Northam signed a bill Wednesday ending the death penalty in Virginia, making the commonwealth the 23rd state to abolish the practice.

In a major address on confronting the sin of racism and working for racial harmony, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, the nation's first African American cardinal, said a "healing of America's soul" is needed.