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The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Milwaukee Jeffrey S. Grob issued a public apology on Sunday for his participation in an Oct. 22 meeting at the White House in which a dozen Catholic bishops prayed over President Donald Trump, saying the administration had posted video and photographs of the moment without the bishops’ consent and turned a private gathering into a political photo opportunity.

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York has agreed to pay $800 million to resolve sexual abuse claims brought by roughly 1,300 people, according to announcements made Saturday.

Archbishop James Golka of the Archdiocese of Denver asked Fr. Chad Ripperger, a prominent Catholic priest, exorcist, and founder of the Society of the Most Sorrowful Mother (also known as the Doloran Fathers), to take a one-year break from public speaking and interviews. Fr. Ripperger obeyed the request, according to an official statement released by the archdiocese on October 19th, 2026.

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago faces a new wave of civil lawsuits as of October 2026 that alleged priests sexually abused more than 100 African-American children over more than three decades at the former Holy Angels Parish in Bronzeville.

Everett Public Schools agreed in mid-October 2026 to publicly apologize, revise its policies, provide religious liberty training to board members, and pay $275,000 in attorney’s fees to settle a federal lawsuit over its treatment of an off-campus Bible education program.

Pastor Jonathan Shelley of Stedfast Baptist Church led children in a Bible drill on October 11, 2026, during a service focused on the Ten Commandments, with winners rewarded by smashing small statues of the Virgin Mary and angelic figures on the stage.

The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops condemned the Department of War’s plan to livestream the scheduled firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan as “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death,” with other bishops and the Archdiocese for the Military Services also speaking out against the proposal.

A federal judge in Chicago issued an expanded temporary order this week shielding nearly every Catholic health care institution in Illinois, along with members of major Catholic and Christian medical groups, from the state’s new assisted-suicide law.

The Archdiocese of St. Louis is suing the Trump administration and local jail officials, alleging that immigration detainees at a Missouri facility had been denied private confession, Communion, and other Catholic sacraments.