Father Val Peter, who was executive director of Boys Town from 1985 to 2005, died June 30 at age 85. No cause of death was given. During his 20-year tenure leading Boys Town, Father Peter renovated ...
Bishop Donald J. Hying of Madison June 24 denounced comments by a Black Lives Matter activist who said statues of Jesus Christ that depict him "with European features" need to come down "because they support ...
In a 5-4 ruling upholding a Montana program to provide student scholarships for use at religious schools, the Supreme Court on Tuesday also in effect repudiated a 19th-century monument to anti-Catholic bigotry known as the ...
Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez has asked Catholics of the archdiocese to invoke the intercession of St. Junipero Serra "for this nation that he helped to found." He also urged prayers especially for "an end ...
When the Supreme Court announced June 29 that it would not hear an appeal by federal death-row inmates challenging the method to be used in their upcoming executions, a longtime advocate against capital punishment said ...
SAN FRANCISCO (CNS) — Several dozen people joined San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone as he led the rosary June 27 and recited the prayer of St. Michael the Archangel for protection from evil at ...
In an essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Notre Dame law professor Richard Garnett writes that Monday’s Supreme Court ruling that overturns a Louisiana law requiring abortionists to hold admitting privileges at a nearby hospital “deeply ...
A federal judge June 26 blocked New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo from enforcing state restrictions on outdoor and indoor religious gatherings that are stricter than those imposed ...
In its latest ruling on abortion, the Supreme Court delivered a sharp but far from definitive setback for pro-life opponents of the practice. The 5-4 ruling Monday held that a Louisiana law requiring doctors who ...
President Donald Trump's executive order on religious freedom issued in early June lays out a strategy for expanding U.S. support for international religious freedom that the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has been urging, ...
