Cupich was a close adviser to Pope Francis, who strongly upheld church teaching opposing abortion but also criticized the politicizing of the abortion debate by U.S. bishops. Some bishops had called ...

Pope Leo XIV intervenes in U.S. abortion debate by raising what it really means to be pro-life while supporting the death penalty.

Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church by raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be “pro-life.” Leo, a Chicago ...

The new American pope, Leo XIV, has somehow managed, in the four months since his election, to stay mostly out of the news. His predecessor, Pope Francis, had been committed to expanding the church’s ...

Some bishops had called for denying communion to Catholic politicians who supported abortion rights, including former US President Joe Biden. Cardinal Blase Cupich enters the field for a mass during ...

Little wonder that American Catholicism can get skewed in its priorities and in its focus. Recently it’s pro-life stance had ...

Georgetown University’s appointment of Eduardo Peñalver as president is emblematic of a broader crisis facing Catholic higher education.

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church by raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be “pro-life.” Leo, ...