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The exhibit "The Ancestry of Pope Leo XIV: An American Story" features a chart of the pope's lineage that spans 15 generations. The exhibit also aims to shed light on the pope's ancestral ties to other countries.

"This is a time when you also have to do the right thing," said William Treanor. "You have to stand up for your values and the values of the university."

A majority of the court's six conservative judges questioned arguments that the state law does not infringe on freedom of speech and the First Amendment by engaging in viewpoint discrimination.

Catholic Health Association, Catholic Charities USA and Network warn that inaction jeopardizes the health and stability of millions of families across the U.S., especially the poor.

Bishop Joseph Tyson of Yakima, Washington, is calling for the release of José López, a local man who was arrested by immigration officers in mid-September. "There was a kind of racial profiling here," Tyson told NCR.

A lawyer seemed to have a conflict of interest when he represented sisters who claimed the future pope covered up their abuse allegations against two priests. Now, one sister says her lawyer "didn't really want to help us."

A Pew study finds many religiously unaffiliated people, so-called "nones," still have spiritual beliefs. Views run the gamut from agnostics to avowed atheists to agnostics. A 66-year-old atheist raised Methodist says the desert is his "dirt church."

The archbishops of Chicago and Detroit echoed the prayers and condolences of fellow bishops, but also called for action to rein in gun violence in America. The bishops' conference statement fell short of its earlier strong advocacy.

Law enforcement officials identified the assailant in the shooting at Annunciation Church as Robin Westman, a 23-year-old Minneapolis resident who left behind a racist and antisemitic manifesto on social media.

Kyle Langford, 24, is a longshot Republican candidate for governor of California, where he has stirred controversy for espousing white supremacist and antisemitic beliefs. "I know how to strike a nerve," he told NCR.

She and two sisters met with then-Bishop Robert Prevost of Chiclayo, Peru, in 2022 to report allegations. 

Cardinal Robert McElroy, installed as archbishop March 11, blames COVID-19, fallout from the Theodore McCarrick scandal, and an extended period of inflation and volatile financial markets for the shortfall. 

In a unanimous ruling the U.S. Supreme Court decided June 5 that a Catholic Charities agency in Wisconsin does not have to pay that state's unemployment tax.

The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked an effort by two Catholic dioceses in Oklahoma to establish what would have been the nation's first taxpayer-funded religious public charter school.

Surprise, hope, excitement and pride were reflected in many of the initial reactions to Cardinal Robert Prevost on May 8 emerging on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica as Pope Leo XIV.

Among leading traditionalists, Cardinals Robert Sarah and Raymond Burke have garnered the most media attention. A few conservative-leaning outlets have even floated their names as papal front-runners.

In the days leading up to the conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor, wealthy American business leaders, philanthropists and conservative activists have descended on Rome and Vatican City to meet, fete and dine with churchmen.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments April 30 in a potential landmark case involving a proposed Oklahoma Catholic school that, if approved, would be the nation's first religious public charter school.

Some legal scholars anticipate that the case, to be argued April 30, might result in a landmark ruling with far-reaching consequences for the separation of church and state.

Lay Catholics in the U.S. reflected on Pope Francis' legacy as a pastor who sought out those on the peripheries and tried to make the Catholic Church a more welcoming space for the marginalized.