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California to pay $4.5 million to Catholic law firm after losing lawsuit over gender secrecy rules

The state committed “litigation intransigence” in fighting a lawsuit over policies that blocked parents from learning about their children’s transgender identities, a federal judge ruled.

Pope Leo XIV: ‘Kneel down as brothers and sisters alongside the oppressed’

On Holy Thursday, the pontiff urged Catholics to imitate Christ’s service in a world marked by brutality.

Quebec secularism law is ‘anti-religious ideology,’ bishops tell Canada Supreme Court

The Catholic bishops were among more than 50 intervenors presenting arguments at a landmark Supreme Court of Canada hearing into the constitutionality of Quebec’s 2019 secularism law.

Indian court reaffirms Dalit Christians have no right to lower-caste protections

India’s Catholic bishops are pushing back on a Supreme Court ruling that reaffirmed Christians are excluded from constitutional protections for lower-caste communities.

German cardinal tells priests: Communion services cannot replace Sunday Mass

The archbishop of Cologne in Germany used his chrism Mass homily to call priests back to offering the daily Eucharist and warn against replacing Sunday Mass with word services.

PHOTOS: Holy Thursday chrism Mass at the Vatican

Chrism Mass includes the blessing of the holy oils that will be used throughout the year in the sacraments of baptism, confirmation, anointing of the sick, and holy orders.

Miami archbishop, top U.S. diplomat decry persecution of Church in Nicaragua during Holy Week

Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau lamented the severe persecution of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua.

NASA’s Artemis II begins Easter week mission around the moon

More than half a century after humans last traveled beyond Earth’s orbit, a new NASA project for lunar exploration has begun, marking a historic day in the United States.

Irish soccer legend Roy Keane pays tribute to late mother and upbringing at funeral Mass

Speaking lovingly of his parents and his Catholic upbringing in Ireland, Keane paid tribute to his mother and the virtues he was raised with in Cork City, Ireland.

New CEO of Catholic AI group hopes members will be Pope Leo’s ‘soldiers’

Builders AI Forum (BAIF) held its first conference at the Vatican in November 2025 and now hopes to be part of advancing Pope Leo XIV’s mission on artificial intelligence.