Saint Richard Roman Catholic Church & School

After four years of bankruptcy proceedings, New York's Rockville Centre Diocese agreed to settle claims from people who said priests and others in the diocese sexually abused them. Survivors spoke to NCR about the settlement.

Listen: Heidi, Daniel and David discuss how Catholics can prepare for the Trump administration; they talk about Cardinal McElroy's appointment as DC's new archbishop; and Heidi interviews Dylan Corbett of Hope Border Institute.

Francis, the comic strip: Gabby is worried about immigrants in the United States.

On Monday, the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, and the multifaith community organizing group Faith in Action held a day of prayer and dialogue with immigrant families at St. Lucy’s Catholic Church.

Taking up the spirit of the recently inaugurated Holy Year 2025, the Cuban government has announced the release of 553 people currently serving prison sentences. That same day, the White House announced that it will no longer designate Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism and that it would eliminate some restrictions on Cuba.

The Rockville Centre Diocese's 136 parishes paid $53 million of the approximately $323 million payout to victims of sexual abuse by priests and adults. Every parish filed for bankruptcy and contributed, whether or not they were being sued.

Biden defended his conduct of foreign policy at the State Department on Monday: "The United States is winning the worldwide competition compared to four years ago." That is mostly true, writes Michael Sean Winters.

"We do better when we listen to others before we speak or make judgments about them," Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich wrote in a column for Outreach, an online resource for LGBTQ Catholics.

"An economy that kills, that excludes, that starves, that concentrates enormous wealth in a few to the detriment of many, that multiplies poverty and grinds down salaries, that pollutes, that produces war, is not an economy," he said in an autobiography released Jan. 14. It is a perversion, "an emptiness, an absence, a sickness."

A national listing of Church-relevant events honoring the life and legacy of the African-American martyr slain for the cause of civil rights.