Washington, D.C. Beat

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare public statement March 18 rebuking President Donald Trump’s call to impeach a federal judge who ruled against his administration …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The sister of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was recently targeted with a bomb threat, law enforcement officials said, shedding light on growing concern about …

(OSV News) — It was one solid social victory amid the communal disintegration of the COVID-19 pandemic: With the congressional passage of the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act, an estimated 3.7 …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Women religious from Africa and a representative of Catholic Relief Services, the overseas charitable arm of the Catholic Church in the U.S., grappled with the Trump administration’s …

Georgetown Law’s dean said the Jesuit institution will not alter its curriculum formed in Catholic teaching despite a threat from a top federal prosecutor.

The U.S. Postal Service is issuing a stamp honoring the late William F. Buckley Jr., a lifelong devout Catholic and a founder of modern conservatism.

The Biden administration had sought to use a 1986 law to require hospitals to perform emergency abortions in states that have restricted abortion since Dobbs.

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The Supreme Court said March 10 that it will hear a First Amendment challenge to a Colorado law banning professional counseling services that practice “conversion therapy” for …

Just 18% of programs of the now-shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development will remain intact and will now fall under secretary of state’s purview. 

(OSV News) — In February, when President Donald Trump signed an executive order pledging his administration’s support for in vitro fertilization, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catholic Medical Association …