In the News Archives - The Catholic Thing


U.S. leads donations to Peter’s Pence; Ireland gives most per person

Tuesday, July 1, 2025


U.K. priest denies MP Holy Communion for supporting for assisted dying bill

Tuesday, July 1, 2025


German anti-Catholic sex-ed guidelines are the fruit of the Synodal Way

Monday, June 30, 2025


Supreme Court upholds porn age-verification law

Monday, June 30, 2025


Jonathan Roumie and other “The Chosen” cast members meet Pope Leo XIV

Friday, June 27, 2025


Pope to Middle East Christians: ‘The whole Church stands with you’

Friday, June 27, 2025


Leo issues orders insisting that priests must be celibate

Thursday, June 26, 2025


Watchdog agency: online pedophile porn soars

Thursday, June 26, 2025


Pope Leo to seminarians: Be passionate about priestly life

Wednesday, June 25, 2025


DOJ joins Catholic Church in suing the State of Washington over confessional seal

Wednesday, June 25, 2025


Suicide bomber strikes Syrian church, killing at least 20

Tuesday, June 24, 2025


National Eucharistic Pilgrimage ends in Los Angeles

Tuesday, June 24, 2025


Pope Leo: No tolerance for abuse of any kind in the Church

Monday, June 23, 2025


Pope Leo on U.S. attack on Iran: Humanity calls out for peace

Monday, June 23, 2025


Israeli Ambassador to the Holy See: Attacks on Iran promote world peace

Friday, June 20, 2025


Supreme Court upholds Tennessee law restricting gender-affirming care for transgender minors

Friday, June 20, 2025


Bishop Barron, others meet in Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission

Thursday, June 19, 2025


Britain votes to decriminalize abortion

Thursday, June 19, 2025


New Jersey Supreme Court says state can empanel grand jury to investigate clergy abuse

Wednesday, June 18, 2025


Reviving tradition, Pope Leo will spend July at Castel Gandolfo

Wednesday, June 18, 2025


Cardinal Burke appeals to Pope Leo for restoration of Traditional Latin Mass

Tuesday, June 17, 2025


Latest attack reportedly kills nearly 200 people in Nigeria

Tuesday, June 17, 2025


Pope Leo greets Chicagoland

Monday, June 16, 2025


Carlo Acutis to be canonized on September 7

Monday, June 16, 2025


Pope Leo XIV gives a first indication of how he might change ‘Synodality’

Friday, June 13, 2025


United Nations’ report misses the mark on the world’s birth dearth

Friday, June 13, 2025


Clerical abuse in Ireland . . . on the rise

Thursday, June 12, 2025


Baptists endorse ban on same-sex marriage

Thursday, June 12, 2025


L.A.’s Archbishop Gomez urges calm, restraint as protests erupt in California

Wednesday, June 11, 2025


Islam is on the rise around the world

Wednesday, June 11, 2025


Pope Leo carries the cross through the Holy Door

Tuesday, June 10, 2025


Vatican purges Rupnik art from its website

Tuesday, June 10, 2025


Can the American Pope fix the Vatican’s financial crisis?

Monday, June 9, 2025


Pope to Orthodox leaders: We’re open to a universal Easter date

Monday, June 9, 2025


Pope and Putin speak

Friday, June 6, 2025


Jewish Americans question their security after violent antisemitic attacks

Friday, June 6, 2025


New York Archdiocese, desperate for vocations, tries ‘Called by Name’

Thursday, June 5, 2025


Eucharistic Pilgrimage leaders: Come out to greet us – and protect us!

Thursday, June 5, 2025


Pope Leo XIV: Counter cohabitation through faithful witness to marriage

Wednesday, June 4, 2025


Pope, Romanian bishops, and Jewish officials pay tribute to martyred WWII bishop

Wednesday, June 4, 2025


How we elected Pope Leo

Tuesday, June 3, 2025


WWII-era Polish nuns beatified for resisting Soviet troops

Tuesday, June 3, 2025


‘This is horror’: 36 Nigerian Christians murdered in three-day bloodbath

Monday, June 2, 2025


Leo XIV’s pectoral cross contains relics of St. Leo the Great and St. Augustine

Monday, June 2, 2025


Washington bishops sue over law forcing priests to violate the seal of confession

Friday, May 30, 2025


Charlotte bishop shelves anti-TLM manifesto, for now

Friday, May 30, 2025


Pope Leo’s governance will echo his leadership in Peru

Thursday, May 29, 2025


Supreme Court sides with copper-mining company and against religion

Thursday, May 29, 2025


Gen Z is rebelling – by getting religion

Wednesday, May 28, 2025


Thousands flock to see St. Teresa of Ávila’s body 443 years after her death

Wednesday, May 28, 2025