In Orange County, the tiny Black population is spread out, meaning there’s no parish where Black Catholics regularly gather.

Archbishop Samuel Aquila wrote that he had “full confidence” in the Rev. Daniel Ciucci’s leadership and said the digital petition lacked the gravitas of a formal grievance.

For years, Burning Man felt like my spiritual homeland. But then something shifted. The illusion of unbridled freedom began ...

News about parish consolidations and property sales can feed the misperception that the Catholic Church in the U.S. is in ...