U.S. Politics

Amid concern over immigration enforcement raids in the area, the Bishop of San Bernardino, California, on July 8 issued a dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass for the faithful if they fear for their well-being.

Canadian pro-life organizations are rejoicing that Planned Parenthood appears poised to lose at least $500 million in taxpayer dollars thanks to U.S. President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” becoming the law of the land on July 4.

The day after his inauguration Mass, Pope Leo XIV had a closed-door meeting at the Vatican with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who gave him a Chicago Bears jersey and a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump.

Both Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will attend the inaugural Mass of Pope Leo XIV on May 18, the vice president's office said.

Amid ever-evolving tariffs and counter-tariffs between Canada, the United States and China, it has been a confusing few months for one of Toronto’s oldest religious goods stores.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance will be in Rome April 18 and has meetings planned with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, his office said.

Scoring presidential administrations on some kind of Christian scale would seem an effort doomed to fail. Political agendas and actions rarely align easily with the teachings of the Gospel.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will not renew its cooperative agreements with the federal government related to children’s services and refugee support after its longstanding partnerships with the federal government in those areas became “untenable.”

If there's anything we know from the first three months of the U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration (let alone from his first term), it's that the next four years are going to be a wild ride.

President Donald Trump on March 15 invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II, granting himself broad authority under a wartime law to deport people allegedly associated with a Venezuelan gang, sparking a legal battle and prompting concern from Catholic immigration advocates.