Trump administration

President Donald Trump’s nomination of Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to lead the Department of Homeland Security cleared a key Senate hurdle this week.

President Donald Trump issued two messages marking prominent Catholic feast days, the feast of St. Joseph on March 19 and St. Patrick’s Day on March 17.

Advocates from across the U.S. gathered in Arizona to discuss pastoral strategies for understanding and applying Catholic teaching to mass deportations.

Conscience protections for health providers remain a key religious freedom concern, witnesses told the Department of Justice’s Religious Liberty Commission.

The U.S. Supreme Court said it will hear oral arguments in cases of Trump administration trying to end TPS for Haitians and Syrians.

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security failed in the Senate as negotiations over new, stronger constraints on federal immigration officers stalled.  The same week, …

A Senate subcommittee hearing on President Donald Trump’s executive order to restrict access to birthright citizenship examined arguments about what the 14th Amendment’s language meant when originally drafted. 

Since the start of the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran, some U.S. Catholic bishops have highlighted Church teaching on what constitutes a “just war.”

The Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act, if enacted, would revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug.

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — With American peacebuilding at a “crossroads,” amid global conflict and changes in U.S. foreign policy, a Notre Dame conference March 10 in the nation’s capital examined how …