Washington, D.C. Beat

Trump has signed more executive orders in his first 10 days than any recent president in their first 100 days — some may affect Catholics’ climate concerns.

(OSV News) — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Feb. 19 it has started to send out guidance on “clear sex-based definitions” to government agencies, outside organizations and …

President Donald Trump’s Feb. 18 executive order on IVF is his first step toward fulfilling a campaign promise the Catholic Church warns is actually anti-life.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aiming to expand access to in vitro fertilization, or IVF, which the Catholic Church opposes as anti-life.

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The U.S. bishops’ migration chair called recent comments by Vice President JD Vance about the church’s work with migrants “a tremendous mischaracterization” while speaking at an event …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The Catholic University of America in Washington has now been granted an elite R1 research designation, joining six other Catholic institutions holding that status, the university announced …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The Trump administration Feb. 7 changed the government’s position in a Supreme Court case concerning a Tennessee state law banning certain types of medical or surgical gender …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Amid ongoing uncertainty about the future of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the former head of Catholic Relief Services told OSV News that cutting off USAID funding …

WASHINGTON (OSV NEWS) — After two federal judges in two days blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to rescind birthright citizenship, a third federal judge followed suit on Feb. 10. U.S. …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — President Donald Trump said in remarks to the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 6 that he would create a task force, led by Attorney General Pam Bondi, to …