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With COVID-19 still taking a toll across Europe, Catholic bishops are backing vaccination campaigns, while also counseling against coercion.

As some Catholics are seeking a religious exemption to the coronavirus vaccine mandates that are becoming more common in workplaces and even some public venues, priests in the Archdiocese of New York have been advised not to get involved in that process.

Richard Trumka, 72, president of the AFL-CIO since 2009 and the labor federation's secretary-treasurer for 14 years before that, died Aug. 5 of a heart attack.

Students at the two Catholic universities based in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis need to add one more item to their to-do list: Get a COVID-19 vaccine. And soon.

The months of June and July in Minnesota were filled with unrelenting heat and humidity — the kind that makes life difficult for many people, particularly the homeless.

Trish Pozarski couldn’t walk very far anymore.

The annual Fête-Dieu du Teche in the Diocese of Lafayette is a "time for all of us to renew our faith," following the example of the first Acadians who were "led by their faith" when they came to Louisiana, said Lafayette Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel.

The Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services is investigating allegations of abuse at a Texas camp for unaccompanied migrant minors.