Washington, D.C. Beat

Vice President JD Vance said in a new interview with NBC News that what he has read of Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical “sounds very profound.”

The issue raised by “Magnifica Humanitas” is one U.S. lawmakers took a first step to address with the Take It Down Act, which just began enforcement.

Discipleship begins by simply saying yes. That was the message of Seattle Auxiliary Bishop Frank R. Schuster, bishop promoter of the Stella Maris ministry, at the annual Maritime Day Mass …

A group of Catholic ministries asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to block a federal agency from enforcing an abortion provision in regulations meant to add …

Organizers of the event said they aimed to mark the nation’s upcoming 250th birthday “with Scripture, testimony, prayer, and rededication of our country as One Nation to God.”

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping concluded a high-stakes summit in Beijing on May 15.

“We show that heightened ICE activity is harming the labor market overall, and we find no evidence that it is benefiting U.S.-born workers.”

The two regulations, not yet finalized, are among the “procedural barriers for asylum applicants” that the second Trump administration has pursued.

A bill reintroduced in the Senate May 14 aims to increase penalties for the unlawful disclosure of data identifying donors who contribute to nonprofit organizations.

President Donald Trump on May 12 confirmed that Marty Makary, the embattled FDA commissioner criticized by pro-life advocates and others, will leave his post.