The Catholic Bar Association (CBA) is a lay movement within the Church to build community, nationally and internationally, among Catholic members of the legal profession. The CBA, founded in 2015, is the first national association of Catholic attorneys in the United States. Its mission is to educate, organize, and inspire its members to faithfully uphold and bear witness to the Catholic faith in their study and practice of the law. The CBA has members in over forty states and expands its reach through the members of its thirteen local affiliates.

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The Catholic Bar Association is the leading organization for Catholic Professionals in the United States, taking on the role of being a voice for Catholics in this profession on both the national and international stage.  The Catholic Bar Association has represented its members through participation in events at Congress, at the Convocation of Catholic Leaders, and even as the delegate from the United States at the Jubilee of Justice in Rome with a meeting with Pope Leo XIV.  Our collective actions inspire our members to live the Catholic faith in the practice of law.  

The Catholic Bar Association is a home for Catholic legal professionals all across the country.  It is a community built on the Catholic faith and our shared profession, with a common goal to promote justice through the work that we do, both as legal professionals and as brothers and sisters in Christ.   This community is connected by a common bond and creates lifelong relationships with friends in our profession.  The Catholic Bar Association works with its members and local dioceses with the goal of establishing a local affiliate chapter and an annual Red Mass in every diocese in the United States.