Pro-life leaders welcome ‘Born Alive Executive Order’ announced by Trump
Catholic News Service WASHINGTON —The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee Sept. 26 applauded President Donald Trump’s signing the “Born Alive Executive Order”…
Trump announces Judge Amy Coney Barrett as U.S. Supreme Court nominee
By Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Eight days after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, President Donald Trump announced…
Gomez: God is calling immigrant church to be ‘light’ to nation of immigrants
Catholic News Service LOS ANGELES — Catholics from across Southern California and beyond joined Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles Sept. 20 for…
‘You are not alone,’ Portland, Ore., archbishop tells victims of wildfires
By Ed Langlois, Catholic News Service MEDFORD, Ore. — Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland visited Southern Oregon Sept. 19-20 to meet some of…
As federal fiscal year nears, refugee resettlement agencies fear the worst
By Rhina Guidos, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — U.S. organizations that work to resettle refugees fear that an upcoming battle with the Trump administration…
Global biotech company ends use of aborted fetal cell lines for vaccines
By Julie Asher, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Catholic pro-life leaders say they are seeing some progress in the development of vaccines with the…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is remembered as ‘jurist of historic stature’
By Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Sept. 18 at age 87, has been described…
Black sisters urge U.S. Catholics, church leaders to do more to end racism
Sister Beulah Martin, a member of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, center right, of Powhatan, Va., waves in Baltimore’s historic St. Francis Xavier…
House passage of Pregnant Workers Fairness Act called ‘huge win for women’
Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd said House passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness…
Supreme Court to begin new term as it ended last one: by teleconference
By Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, which begins its new term Oct. 5, will be hearing oral arguments by…