Human Rights Watch, in a detailed new report, says Chinese authorities are increasing pressure on underground Catholic communities to join the state-controlled official church while tightening surveillance and travel restrictions on all of China’s estimated 12 million Catholics.

Pope Leo XIV has urged the people of Monaco to use their Catholic faith and wealth for good.

Pope Leo XIV urges young people to make radical choices for good during a major event in Rome.

People around the world are paying their last respects to Pope Francis.

In the pope’s homeland of Argentina, Catholics have been renouncing the faith and joining the growing ranks of the religiously unaffiliated.

Indigenous Canadians are voicing a range of skepticism, wariness and hope as Pope Francis prepares to arrive in their country next week.

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority.