Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

The U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) has launched a campaign to put an end to taxpayer-funded abortions, urging citizens to petition Congress to defend the Hyde Amendment.

Pope Francis recalled the 40th anniversary of the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope Saint John Paul II Wednesday.

Praying is hard work and not a “walk in the park,” Pope Francis told pilgrims gathered in the Vatican for his general audience Wednesday.

The acting governor of the southern Italian region of Calabria Antonino Spirlì has called for immediate state intervention to put a halt to the non-stop landings of African migrants.

Nigeria’s Catholic Bishops have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to stand up and take the reins of the country, which suffers an ongoing economic and security crisis, Vatican News reported Monday.

Myanmar Cardinal Charles Bo has urged Christians around the world to unite in praying for the Chinese people during the week of May 23-30.

The prefect of the Vatican’s doctrinal office (CDF) has urged U.S. bishops to insist on Catholic politicians’ “grave and clear obligation to oppose any law that attacks human life.”

The head of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has blamed ongoing riots in Jerusalem on an “unfair and unjust situation” afflicting the Palestinian people, Vatican News reported Monday.

A showdown is brewing among the U.S. bishops over the question of whether to deny Holy Communion to public figures such as Joe Biden who profess to be Catholics while actively working to expand abortion rights, which the Church considers to be gravely evil.

Progressive Catholics in Germany have announced their intent to offer blessings to same-sex couples at dozens of churches around the country this week in defiance of a recent Vatican ban on the practice.

Pope Francis denounced Saturday’s terrorist bombing of a girls’ school in Kabul, Afghanistan, which claimed the lives of at least 50 people, most of them schoolgirls.

Pope Francis urged for common solutions to recent turmoil in Jerusalem Sunday, as the city prepares for Monday’s annual Jerusalem Day parade.

Pope Francis called Saturday for universal access to coronavirus vaccines and “the temporary suspension of intellectual property rights.”

Catholic League president Bill Donohue said Friday that President Joe Biden’s failure to even mention God in his National Day of Prayer address was “inexplicable at best and objectionable at worst.”

The progressive bishop of San Diego, Robert W. McElroy, argued this week that President Joe Biden should be permitted to continue receiving Holy Communion despite his overt support for abortion rights.

Facebook has permanently banned LifeSiteNews, a popular pro-life news outlet, for publishing “false information about COVID-19 that could contribute to physical harm.”

Each bishop must decide whether to allow pro-abortion politicians to receive Holy Communion rather than the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB), Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny said Thursday.

Pope Francis said Thursday that the Church of today is called to “widen her tent to embrace everyone,” especially migrants and foreigners.

ROME — Pope Francis sent prayers and condolences to the people of India on Thursday when so many “are suffering as a result of the present health emergency,” in reference to the large number of coronavirus infections.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Thursday that extreme weather events caused by global warming pose a dire threat to maternal health in the U.S. especially for “women of color.”

The leader of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration said Tuesday that President Biden’s decision to quadruple the cap on the number of refugees eligible for resettlement in the United States is a “step in the right direction.”

Armed gunmen raided a Sunday morning service last week at Haske Baptist Church in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, killing one and kidnapping at least four others, the Barnabas Fund reported Tuesday.

The Wall Street Journal published an essay Wednesday warning of Facebook’s “secret rules” used to police users’ accounts and remove “offensive” material.

The woke New Belgium brewing company has intentionally produced a bad-tasting beer to call attention to the dangers of climate change.

ROME — Pope Francis warned of the dangers of unregulated markets Tuesday, calling for “rigid regulation” of financial speculation.

Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the former vicar of Rome, reaffirmed Tuesday the importance of a recent Vatican text banning clergy from blessing homosexual unions.

Pope Francis sent a video message to participants in the Vax Live concert in Los Angeles Sunday night, urging concertgoers “not to forget the most vulnerable” in vaccine distribution.

The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Francis will celebrate a special Mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica for all Myanmar Catholics who live in Rome.

Prominent Catholic thinkers have handed Joe Biden a failing report card following the president’s first hundred days in office.

Pope Francis called on the Virgin Mary Saturday to touch the hearts of world financiers to stop investing “huge sums” of money in armaments but to invest rather in cures for future pandemics.