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U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander ruled late Oct. 12 that the Michigan-based St. Michael's Media, also known as Church Militant, can have the Nov. 16 rally it wants to hold in a city-owned waterfront pavilion near the hotel where the U.S. bishops' will meet Nov. 15-18.

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services said Oct. 12 that "no one should be forced to receive a COVID-19 vaccine if it would violate the sanctity of his or her conscience."

A prominent Anglican bishop has joined the Catholic Church and will be ordained as a priest at the end of October.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will have an audience with Pope Francis Oct. 29, the day before the G20 Leaders' Summit starts in Rome, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Oct. 14.

While government subsidies are necessary sometimes to help a family survive, job creation is what will help them thrive, Pope Francis said.

Religious and lay women on the front lines against human trafficking said that greater awareness and education are needed about the reality of modern slavery in the world, especially among young people.

All health care professionals have a right to conscientious objection, just as they have a right to denounce unjust harm inflicted on innocent and defenseless life, Pope Francis said.

With the news that Pope John Paul I would soon be beatified, Twitter and other social media were filled -- again -- with the question: Has being pope become a shortcut to canonization?

Just two days after this year's Boston Marathon, the Supreme Court revisited the bombing at the 2013 race that killed three people and injured hundreds.

In a jubilant Mass Oct. 9 concluding the Black Catholic Theological Symposium, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington called the congregation to remember the Gospel's lesson to "live the fullness of life even now," despite struggles including societal disparities that disadvantage some people.