
New Barna Survey Finds That 38% of US Pastors Have Considered Leaving Ministry
The great resignation plaguing our nation is reaching into churches on an alarming level.

The great resignation plaguing our nation is reaching into churches on an alarming level.

In an unusual interview published by Vatican News ahead of the U.S. bishops’ vote this week on the document titled “The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church,” Cardinal Roger Mahoney, the retired Archbishop of Los Angeles, calls the upcoming document “totally unnecessary,” because, he says, it “was intended primarily to go after and penalize Catholic legislators.”

Ahead of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ general assembly in Baltimore Nov. 15-18, a group of Catholic and other faith leaders called on Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, USCCB president, to apologize for remarks he made about social justice movements in a Nov. 4 address.

Hundreds of Catholic men from around the country gathered outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in downtown Baltimore Nov. 15 to pray for an end to abortion, to repent for their role in abortion and to call on all men to defend unborn life.

Opening the U.S. bishops fall plenary, the pope’s representative to the country focussed on the importance of synodality, while the president of the body, Archbishop José Gomez focused his remarks on Eucharistic revival.

Rising costs of labor, transportation, and grain are hitting many meat companies hard, and that will hit Americans hard at the grocery store.

A high school freshman in New Hampshire was suspended from playing football in September for sharing his views on gender with another student. Now the athlete's family is suing the school district for violating his constitutional right to free speech.

While the Catholic Church’s position in the world has altered, its evangelistic mission “does not change with the culture, or politics, or the spirit of the age,” Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles reminded his fellow bishops Nov. 16 at their fall assembly.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans has agreed to pay more than $1 million as part of a settlement over allegations of falsified Hurricane Katrina aid claims.

The Loudoun County School Board has agreed to a permanent injunction prohibiting it from retaliating against Leesburg Elementary School teacher Tanner Cross for expressing his constitutionally protected views on the board's transgender policy.