The U.S. Supreme Court will consider an appeal from a Colorado-based coalition of Catholic preschools who allege they were excluded from a “universal” government tuition program for preschoolers. After granting the appeal on April 20, the court will likely hear the case in the fall. The Colorado universal preschool program provides tuition assistance to families…

More than 400 men will be ordained to the priesthood in the U.S. this year, and on average they are 33 years old and are lifelong Catholics, according to an annual CARA survey. The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) released its 2026 national survey of seminarians who are scheduled for ordination this…

The Diocese of Charlotte has found that a priest did not violate any of its conduct policies during confessions with teens at Charlotte Catholic High School in North Carolina last December. Multiple families whose teens attend the school had complained that a priest stepped over the line into “inappropriate” talk during confession, but in a…

EWTN Spain is broadcasting Catholic programming 24 hours a day on digital terrestrial television, allowing viewers to access the content without a paid platform subscription, the network announced Monday. News of the network’s long-planned expansion comes ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s June 6–12 visit to Spain, the first papal visit to the country since Pope…

American Catholic and Jewish leaders and community members gathered April 16 at the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., to reflect on Catholic-Jewish relations 40 years after Pope John Paul II’s historic visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome. On April 13, 1986, Pope John Paul II did what no other pope…