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Hong Kong's pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily will print its final edition "no later than Saturday," bosses confirmed June 23, after police froze accounts and arrested staff using a new national security law.

Shortly before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced the bishops had approved moving forward in drafting a teaching document on the Eucharist, a group of Catholic Democratic members of the House of Representatives asked the bishops not to deny holy Communion to anyone over the issue of abortion. Among them is Rep. Betty McCollum, who represents Minnesota’s 4th district, which covers most of Ramsey and part of Washington Counties.

Arriving at the Vatican early in morning, a dozen inmates from Rome's Rebibbia prison brought a basket of breads they had baked before the sun came up.

Gathered for faith, fraternity and family in the Year of St. Joseph, more than 200 Catholic fathers and their families celebrated Mass June 19 with Bishop Andrew Cozzens.

The U.S. bishops approved by a wide margin a plan to draft a document to examine the "meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the Church" following a lengthy debate during their spring general assembly.

Eighty years ago, Paul Ditter boarded a school bus with his fellow classmates at Holy Name of Jesus School in Medina, heading to a special destination: the Pontifical Mass for Children at the Ninth National Eucharistic Congress.

At 29, Julia Coleman is the youngest Minnesota state senator in office, serving District 47. She’s also the mother to three boys under age 2. Her Catholic faith sustains her. The Chanhassen resident attends nearby St. Hubert as well as the Cathedral of St. Paul, where she and her husband, Jacob, were married.

In a unanimous decision June 17, the Supreme Court said that a Catholic social service agency should not have been excluded from Philadelphia's foster care program because it did not accept same-sex couples as foster parents.