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During a Nov. 15 commemoration of Black Catholic History Month at Sacred Heart Church in Bowie, the Archdiocese of Washington unveiled a new project that seeks to "honor those enslaved by the Catholic Church in Maryland."

Meeting an international cast of film directors and actors, Pope Leo XIV spoke about the power of cinema to help people "contemplate and understand life, to recount its greatness and fragility and to portray the longing for infinity."

Pope Leo XIV fulfilled a promise made by the late Pope Francis to return to Canada's Indigenous communities artifacts -- including an Inuit kayak, masks, moccasins and etchings -- that have been held by the Vatican for more than 100 ...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops approved a "pastoral message on immigration" Nov. 12, voicing "our concern here for immigrants" at their annual fall plenary assembly in Baltimore.

Pope Leo XIV's election already proved historically significant: the first U.S.-born pope, the first Augustinian, and the first pope born after World War II.

A new survey shows young adult Catholics are the most engaged in the Latin Church in the U.S. – but the "strong" dynamic is also "fragile," and questions of leaving the church persist.