The Archdiocese of Washington had its largest ordination class since 1960, when 17 men were ordained the year that John F. Kennedy was elected as the nation’s first Catholic president.

U.S. bishops met for a plenary assembly to discuss various topics including mental health, poverty and youth ministry, as well as hearing proposals from the National Review Board on how to combat sex abuse in the church.

Some suggestions from the staff of America for summer reading: books old and new, long and short, funny and sad.

Both the United States and the European Union are experiencing a period when double-digit percentages of foreign-born people have been able to achieve legal residency.

Catholics are a good weathervane for how the country will vote: If you win Catholics, you likely win the country.

As of this spring, the program will have brought top-tier business school knowledge and skills to local leaders at nearly all of Catholic Charities’ 167 offices.

For 50 years, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development has served as one of the church’s primary investments in fighting poverty. The U.S. bishops must reaffirm their support for this initiative.

López Obrador says he plans to go quietly into political retirement, but AMLO playing Benedict to Claudia Sheinbaum’s Francis will be just one of the incoming Mexican president’s major challenges.

Voting in the E.U. parliamentary elections, which begins on June 6, is expected to result in a strong swing to the political right, as parties running on anti-immigration platforms have surged across Europe in recent years.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Tuesday dramatically limiting the number of immigrants who may apply for asylum at the southern United States border.