US & Canada

The Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, in the United States, has announced plans to build a shrine to Venerable Father Augustine Tolton, whose story of overcoming racial discrimination and divisions in his time continues to be a source of inspiration to promote peace and unity. Venerable Father Augustine Tolton - the first publicly recognized Black priest in the United States - was a much-loved pas... Read More

Cardinal Blase J Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, has been awarded the Catholic Theological Union's 'Blessed are the Peacemakers' award. In a speech at the prize ceremony on Wednesday evening, the Cardinal quoted Pope Leo XIV's homily for Palm Sunday this year, in which he said that Jesus "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them." It is unfortunate, the Cardinal noted,... Read More

King Charles told a joint session of the US Congress on Tuesday that his Christian faith was his "firm anchor and daily inspiration"; how he was committed to interfaith understanding and prayed for peace to prevail over war through a generosity of spirit. Marking the 250th anniversary of American independence with a four-day state visit, he also underlined his faith in a rules-based international ... Read More

Englewood Cliffs NJ: The Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of Peace (CSJP) is expressing profound disappointment following the Palantir Board of Directors' decision to actively oppose a critical shareholder resolution on human rights. While the sisters welcome the inclusion of the proposal, in the 2026 proxy statement (Proposal 5), they are deeply troubled that the company's leadership has ... Read More

President Trump's recent attacks on Pope Leo have produced widespread popular support for the first American pope. But they have also given right-wing Catholics a serious case of ambivalence. And with good reason. For the last several decades, the US bishops have instructed the laity to focus on abortion as the 'pre-eminent priority' of Catholic morality, often to the neglect of other pressing soc... Read More

The Supreme Knight of Columbus Patrick Kelly has published the following statement: In recent days, many Catholics and other people of goodwill have been deeply disappointed by the disparaging comments directed at Pope Leo XIV by the President of the United States. The Successor of Saint Peter is not a politician - he is the Vicar of Christ, entrusted with proclaiming the Gospel and shepherding so... Read More

Silence in the face of injustice is complicity. Peace demands courage. Faith demands action. Priests Against Genocide USA (PAGUSA) has welcomed and affirmed the recent moral appeal issued by Pope Leo, who, in remarks to reporters at the Vatican, called on "all people of goodwill to search always for peace and not violence, to reject war," and urged citizens worldwide to contact their political lea... Read More

During his Vigil Mass for Peace, on Saturday evening, at the Cathedral of St Matthew the Apostle in Washington, Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington DC, said that under Catholic just war principles, the initiation of the war in Iran and any continuation of it is "morally illegitimate". He called on faithful to "pray that the ceasefire holds and that it leads to a substantive foundatio... Read More

At the beginning of Holy Week, Bishop John Michael Botean of the Romanian Catholic Diocese of St George in Canton, Ohio, released a pastoral letter denouncing the Iran war. In the letter Bishop Botean says: "I must declare for your sake that this war is unjust, killing in it is murder, and any willing participation in it is complicity in murder." "the United States launched an attack on the people... Read More

The President of the US Bishops' Conference (USCCB) has appealed to President Trump to avoid going through with his threat to "destroy the whole Iranian civilization" if Tehran does not agree to re-open the Strait of Hormuz. "I call on President Trump to step back from the precipice of war and negotiate a just settlement for the sake of peace and before more lives are lost," said Archbishop Paul ... Read More

America's most senior Catholic military cleric has expressed serious reservations about Donald Trump's war on Iran, clearly stating that it does not meet the Catholic Church's moral criteria for a just war. In an interview with Ed O'Keefe on CBS News 'Face the Nation', which was televised on Easter Sunday, Archbishop Timothy Broglio, head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, which overse... Read More

In recent months, Catholic priests in the United States have been invited to join an international movement opposing genocide and advocating for a just peace in Palestine. Unfortunately, the response has been slow-alarmingly so. To date, just over 100 priests-out of approximately 37,000 nationwide-have signed on. Why the hesitation? What factors account for the reluctance of US priests to support ... Read More

Bishop Mark J Seitz of the Diocese of El Paso, the Hope Border Institute, Estrella del Paso and local community organizations held a March and Vigil for Human Life and an End to Mass Deportations in Downtown El Paso. yesterday. The day began with Mass presided by Bishop Evelio Menijvar (Auxiliary Bishop of Washington) for the feast day of Saint Oscar Romero. A delegation of bishops and national le... Read More

El Paso, Texas - The Most Rev Mark J Seitz, Bishop of El Paso, released a pastoral letter on mass detention and mass deportations in El Paso during Mass today at the Cathedral of Saint Patrick in El Paso, Texas. The message, addressing both mass detention and mass deportation, is the first of its kind since the beginning of mass deportations in the United States this past year, and addressed direc... Read More