Pro-life leader says executive order is effort ‘to appease abortion lobby’
By Julie Asher WASHINGTON — A national pro-life leader said President Joe Biden’s July 8 executive order on abortion “confirmed the White House is…
Biden offers condolences after killing
of former Japanese prime minister
By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden said he was stunned, outraged and saddened over the killing of former Japanese Prime Minister…
Exchange student, U.S. host family
recount youth’s odyssey to flee Ukraine
By John Shaughnessy INDIANAPOLIS — The phone call was a parent’s nightmare, waking Thomas Wright at 3 a.m. in Indianapolis. As Wright heard the…
Bishops say U.S. mass shootings have
become ‘shockingly commonplace’
WASHINGTON — The July 4 mass shooting brought devastation to yet another community in the U.S. and such a tragic situation “has become shockingly…
Sisters of Mercy decry Ohio
police shooting, Illinois mass shooting
SILVER SPRING, Md. — The leadership team of the Sisters of Mercy said July 6 that a police shooting in Ohio in late June…
Vatican, offering ‘moral support,’
joins U.N. treaty on climate change
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is now a formal party to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and has declared it intends also…
Those with same-sex attraction say
Courage helps them live church teaching
By Meghan Bartlett ARLINGTON Va. — In June, rainbow-colored flags waved outside restaurants, signs with mantras such as “Love is love” rested in windows…
Do findings of two new polls show
the path where America is headed?
By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON — With the issuance of two recent Gallup polls on Americans’ belief in God and their views on morality, one…
U.K. bishop: Lack of clear moral compass
led to prime minister’s downfall
By Simon Caldwell MANCHESTER, England — Boris Johnson’s lack of “a clear moral compass” was the underlying cause of his downfall, a Catholic bishop…
San Antonio archbishop says
exploitation of poor, migrants is ‘grave’
By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON — San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller in a recent homily railed on smugglers as well as the injustices toward immigrants,…