WASHINGTON (CNS) -- As part of the Year of St. Joseph declared by Pope Francis, the U.S. Catholic Church's annual Respect Life Month celebration in October "highlights the example of that great saint" as protector of life, said the chairman of the U.S. bishops' pro-life committee.
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LA CROSSE, Wis. (CNS) -- Cardinal Raymond L. Burke said he is continuing steady progress in his recovery from COVID-19, but explained that it is slow going in a letter to supporters and friends. In a letter dated Sept. 25, the 73-year-old cardinal thanked people "with all my heart, for your faithful and generous prayers for the recovery of my health."
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Texas abortion providers urged the Supreme Court Sept. 23 to once again, and quickly, review their challenge to the state law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- For months, the Biden administration has been publicly hammering an unwelcoming message to those trying to enter the U.S. illegally at the southernmost part of the country: "The border is closed."
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (CNS) -- A father and his two sons, members of the Cathedral of the Assumption in Louisville, walked part of the famous Camino de Santiago -- the Way of St. James -- in Spain this summer.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- John Garvey, president of The Catholic University of America in Washington since 2010, announced Sept. 22 that he will be stepping down from the role he described as "an honor and a privilege" at the end of June.
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BETHESDA, Md. (CNS) -- For three-time Olympian Katie Ledecky, her incredible journey to winning four more Olympic medals at the Summer Games in Tokyo began many years ago and winds through several roads.
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RICHMOND, Va. (CNS) -- Around 1,500 pro-lifers from around the state gathered at the Capitol in Richmond for the annual Virginia March for Life Sept. 17. Attendees sported pro-life T-shirts and carried homemade signs proclaiming the goodness of life and urging the protection of the unborn. The crowd listened to speakers before marching through the streets of the capital.
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NEW ORLEANS (CNS) -- We all know Rome wasn't built in a day, but LEGO architect Rocco Buttliere had three months, which definitely gave him a running start over Julius Caesar. Working quietly in his Chicago-area home during the lull of the pandemic in 2020, Buttliere cobbled together 67,000 tiny, plastic LEGO pieces to create an improbably realistic 3D replica of Vatican City State.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The U.S. bishops' migration committee chairman Sept. 15 welcomed a move by House members to include language in the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill to provide a pathway to U.S. citizenship for beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and other immigrants.
Read moreWASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Supreme Court is going back to school this term. The justices are taking up a challenge by two sets of parents in Maine against a state education department rule that lets families who live in towns without public schools receive public tuition funds to send their children to another public or private school as long as it's not a religious school.
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NEW ORLEANS (CNS) -- Sept. 14 marked the 700th anniversary of the 1321 death of Florentine poet Dante Alighieri, whose epic poem, "The Divine Comedy," continues to resonate today with its perceptive and reflections on the human condition and on humanity's seemingly endless search for God.
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Washington D.C., Sep 13, 2021 / 12:04 pm (CNA). A California bill to replace a statue of St. Junipero Serra at the state capitol unfairly slanders the saint's legacy, two archbishops claimed in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Sunday, Sept. 12.
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NEW YORK (CNS) -- New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said he couldn't think of "a better place to be" than St. Patrick's Cathedral "on this somber anniversary" of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He shared his sentiments in opening remarks at a morning Mass he offered Sept. 11 at the cathedral to members of the New York City Fire Department and to families of firefighters who perished on 9/11.
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BLUE POINT, N.Y. (CNS) -- Father Kevin M. Smith, a veteran fire chaplain, trauma counselor and loyal friend to scores of active and retired firefighters in the New York metropolitan area, receives more phone calls in early September than any other time of the year.
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Washington D.C., Sep 8, 2021 / 16:00 pm (CNA). The Archbishop of Washington on Wednesday clarified the Church's teaching on when life begins, after Catholic President Joe Biden last week said life does not begin at conception.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Amid heated discussion surrounding the new abortion law in Texas, which bans abortions from six weeks, Catholic bishops have emphasized the importance of a long-running state program to help pregnant women.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Amid heated discussion surrounding the new abortion law in Texas, which bans abortions from six weeks, Catholic bishops have emphasized the importance of a long-running state program to help pregnant women.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Three residents of a housing ministry belonging to the Archdiocese of New Orleans were found dead following the wrath of Hurricane Ida, which left a slew of Louisiana residents trapped in their homes and without electricity days after its Aug. 29 landfall.
Read moreWASHINGTON (CNS) -- The U.S. Catholic Church in 2020 had 18,075 permanent deacons serving in ministry, a decrease of 118 deacons, less than 1%, from the previous year, according to data collected by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate in Washington.
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ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) -- In the two decades since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, several Catholics in the Arlington Diocese -- where the Pentagon was hit by a hijacked plane -- say they relied on their faith that day and in the years since to process what happened.
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CLEVELAND (CNS) -- Polarization across society has prompted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to launch an initiative that looks to bring people together to serve the common good. Called "Civilize It: A Better Kind of Politics," the initiative is designed to "move forward the kind of conversations that we need to be having to overcome our divisions," said Jill Rauh, director of education and outreach in the USCCB's Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development, which is coordinating the effort.
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CLEVELAND (CNS) -- Two members of Congress have introduced a bill to expand successful trafficking prevention efforts in schools and businesses. Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Karen Bass (D-Calif.) introduced the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection and Reauthorization Act of 2021 in the House of Representatives Sept. 3.
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MURRELLS INLET, S.C. (CNS) -- When the last days of August roll around every year, that's when the memories start to return to Thomas Damore. No matter the weather, no matter what he's doing, they come back. Even though 20 years have passed and the retired captain of the New York Fire Department now lives hundreds of miles from the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
Read moreWashington, D.C. (CNA) -- President Joe Biden said on Wednesday Sept. 1 that his administration is "deeply committed" to upholding legal abortion, after Texas' pro-life "heartbeat" law went into effect.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) -- The football program at Portland Central Catholic High School has impressive stats: multiple state championships, countless conference championships, nearly 70 players who went on to play football in college, five active players in the NFL and a 5-1 record in 2021's truncated spring season.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The "present ills of our economy" invite Catholics to reflect on ways to propose new and creative responses to vital human needs in a post-pandemic world, said Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, in the U.S. bishops' annual Labor Day statement.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A Texas bill banning abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy became law Sept. 1 when the U.S. Supreme Court did not act on an emergency request to put the law on hold. The law, signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in May, became effective at midnight central time Sept. 1. It is one of the strictest abortion measures in the country, banning abortions in the state after a fetal heartbeat is detectable. The law has an exception for medical emergencies but not for rape or incest.
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It was after reading Pope Francis' encyclical, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," that Emily Burke began wondering what she, as a student at Jesuit-run Creighton University, could do to help protect the environment.
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NEW ORLEANS (CNS) -- With most of South Louisiana cut off from electrical power due to the 150-mph winds of Hurricane Ida, the Archdiocese of New Orleans announced Aug. 30 that all schools, along with its main administrative offices, would remain closed until at least Labor Day, Sept. 6.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (CNS) -- Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, chairman of the USCCB's Committee on Pro-Life Activities, encouraged Catholics to receive one of the coronavirus vaccines if they discern that it is appropriate to do so.
Read moreLA CROSSE, Wis. (CNS) -- Cardinal Raymond L. Burke thanked health care workers as well as people who have been praying for him as he continues his recovery from COVID-19. In an Aug. 28 letter posted on his website, he said he would remain hospitalized as he begins what he described as "intensive rehabilitation."
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