The New York Senate has voted to legalize medically assisted suicide, a move that one Catholic bioethicist told OSV News marked “a dark day” for the state’s residents.

A leaked draft document on revising liturgical norms in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, has stirred backlash for its addressing of some practices predating the Second Vatican Council.

Bishop Mark Seitz led a March 24 demonstration and prayer vigil to protest the Trump administration's immigration policy.

“The threat of mass deportations is untenable and immoral and demands a credible response,” Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, wrote in an open letter to “all people of faith and everyone committed to the common good.”

Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City has issued a decree prohibiting certain hymns due to theological error or their composition by persons credibly accused of abuse.

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, a Republican, has ordered all public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms by the start of 2025, a move decried by much of civil society as a violation of the separation of church and state.

AI priest “Father Justin,” a chatbot used to answer questions about the Catholic faith, has been renamed “Justin” and swapped out his virtual clerics for a button-down shirt after facing backlash from online users just one day after launching.

In a lengthy Jan. 10 post on his website, Legionary of Christ Father Matthew Schneider took credit for alerting Loyola Press, and described Father Jim Sichko as a “habitual plagiarist.”

Father Marko Rupnik—a renowned mosaic artist who was expelled from the Jesuits for refusing to comply with ministry restrictions after credible abuse accusations—has been accepted into the Diocese of Koper.

Women religious in Ukraine are facing Russia’s full-scale invasion of that nation with determined faith and a commitment to service.