Discontent grows among Biden’s immigration allies over migrant treatment
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."
‘Human mobility’ is reality all local churches must address, says cardinal
Just as the "perilous state of the natural and social environments" drove Pope Francis to speak of "our one, shared common home," so too does the worldwide aspect of migration "and desperate flight," a Vatican official told a Chicago conference Sept. 21.
SSPX leader says vaccination can be morally ‘prudent’
While denouncing as an "abuse of power" coercive measures to promote vaccination against COVID-19, a leader of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X said getting vaccinated "may sometimes be an eminently prudent act in the moral sense of the term."
Armenian bishops elect former U.S. pastor as patriarch
The bishops of the Armenian Catholic Church elected Archbishop Raphaël François Minassian, the ordinary for Armenian Catholics in Eastern Europe, to be their church's new patriarch.
Catholics should debate issues, not debase each other, cardinal says
Honest and open debate about different points of view in the Catholic Church are fundamental, but Catholics should not be demonizing the individuals with those views, Cardinal George Pell said.
Two Miami priests hope to visit Haitian migrants in limbo at Texas border
Two senior Haitian American priests from the Archdiocese of Miami planned to travel to Texas Sept. 24 to meet and pray with some of the thousands of migrants stuck in limbo at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Texas abortion providers ask court to speed up abortion law review
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.
Advocates support $3.5 trillion bill, but urge abortion funding be cut
The multitrillion dollar spending bill being considered in Congress has gained support from key Catholic advocates in large part because of measures that would help reduce poverty.
House OKs abortion bill called ‘far outside the American mainstream’
In a 218-211 vote Sept. 24, the U.S. House passed what opponents consider one of the most extreme abortion bills ever seen in the nation -- the Women's Health Protection Act.
Hawaii Mass is send-off for remains of war-hero priest to return to Kansas
Hawaii bid aloha to Father Emil J. Kapaun, a U.S. Army Korean War chaplain and candidate for sainthood Sept. 23.
