Armed with prayers and signs, young immigrants hail high court’s decision
byBy Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Before college student Luz Chavez left her Gaithersburg, Maryland, home June 18 to hear a decision…
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Scholarship honors Indianapolis Catholic who gave up life to help others
byBy John Shaughnessy Catholic News Service INDIANAPOLIS — When someone was considering which high school to attend, Chris Beaty never wavered from his belief the…
Reaction positive to Supreme Court decision on bid to end DACA
byBy Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Reaction was largely laudatory to the Supreme Court’s June 18 rejection of a Trump administration bid to…
High court rules against Trump administration’s plan to end DACA
byBy Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON— In one of the most anticipated cases of the term, the Supreme Court June 18 ruled against…
Catholic educators work to ease blow of pandemic-induced school closings
byCLEVELAND — The announcement that two historic Catholic schools in the Diocese of Worcester, Massachusetts, were closing for good as the academic year ended…
Christians called to intercede for, not condemn, others, pope says
byBy Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — True believers do not condemn people for their sins or shortcomings but intercede on…
Catholic Extension study lists highest, lowest COVID-19 rates by diocese
byBy Catholic News Service CHICAGO — An analysis conducted by the staff of Catholic Extension found that dioceses it supports financially have the nation’s most…
Setting of execution dates for federal death-row prisoners denounced
byBy Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Critics of the death penalty denounced the decision June 15 by Attorney General William Barr to set…
Detroit archdiocese responds to derogatory attacks on Washington archbishop
byBy Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron and the Archdiocese of Detroit in a June 11 statement condemned “racist…
Young Italian tech whiz to be beatified in October
byBy Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian teenager who used his computer programming skills to spread…