Over 3,000 Catholic leaders gathered to encourage unity on the path to becoming “evangelizing disciples.”

The laypeople were the experts—the ones who live the challenges of family life every day—at the San Diego synod responding to Pope Francis' “Amoris Laetitia."

Some 160 bishops and 200 Catholic organizations will gather in Orlando to consider how the U.S. church can better promote the Gospel.

This particular ceremony of consecration had never been performed before within the Archdiocese of Detroit.

This is the 70th year the event has been held, modeled on similar blessings back in Portugal.

The high court, in a 7-2 ruling in Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer, sided with the religious school.