Former Bishop Miege High School President Phil Baniewicz is not suitable for church employment, appointment, volunteer service or ministry involving minors or other vulnerable persons in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, the archbishop announced Thursday.

Archbishop Shawn McKnight imposed the restrictions after the archdiocese’s ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As Florida attorney general, James Uthmeier has worked to bring church and state together.

He’s said he won’t enforce a constitutional ban on government funding for churches and other religious groups, and has made clear his view that the Constitution shouldn’t be looked at with a “secularist gloss.”

But Florida...Read more

After 2½ years of bickering with their neighbors, the operators of Los Gatos’ only mosque will have to wait even longer for a decision after the town council on Tuesday night allowed discussions to continue to a date uncertain.

The West Valley Muslim Association applied in 2024 to update its conditional use permit with the Town of Los Gatos ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A federal bankruptcy judge has rejected competing reorganization plans proposed by the Archdiocese of Baltimore and a committee representing survivors of child sexual abuse, saying both proposals were confusing, lacked important information, and contained provisions that could not be confirmed under bankruptcy law.

U.S. Bankruptcy...Read more

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” has been widely characterized by the media as the Catholic Church’s landmark alarm bell about the perils of artificial intelligence. But it would be a mistake to reduce the encyclical to a warning about AI and its impact on humanity alone. More broadly, the pope frames the AI ...Read more

An organization focused on the separation of church and state has accused a Lexington middle school of letting church representatives “proselytize” local middle schoolers.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation on Wednesday demanded that Fayette County Public Schools “immediately stop allowing pastors from a local church to proselytize ...Read more

MIAMI — Miami’s top Catholic leader is continuing to advocate for a three-year extension of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants in the United States, calling the humanitarian crisis in Haiti a “house on fire” that would be “unconscionable” to send people back to.

Archbishop Thomas Wenski ...Read more

As Florida continues state executions at a record-setting pace, Catholic leaders are encouraging the public to oppose the death penalty and instead promote a “culture of life.”

On Monday, the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops released a pastoral letter urging Florida elected officials to end capital punishment, arguing that the ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The canal that flows between Fort Lauderdale resident Harry Rozelle’s house and his church is so infested with bacteria that his teenage son, Cruz, was hospitalized after swimming in it three years ago.

As he tended to his sick son, who had contracted E. coli and salmonella from the polluted waterway, Rozelle thought...Read more