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Senate bill could blacklist pro-life groups for aid funding

Oct 31, 2019

By Matt Hadro

A pro-life group is warning Senators that a proposed government funding bill could “blacklist” pro-life groups while funding promoters of... Read more

Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn. CNA file photo

Buffalo diocese investigation ends, DiMarzio will send report to Vatican

Oct 31, 2019

By CNA Staff

The bishop offered no comment on his findings in the scandal-hit Buffalo diocese. Read more

In opioid-hit west Michigan, Catholic Charities plans to open detox center

Oct 31, 2019

By Jonah McKeown

Catholic Charities West Michigan has announced plans to build a $4.5 million detox center, expected to serve 700 people a... Read more

Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Dallas, Texas. Via Shutterstock

Judge orders police to return some files to Diocese of Dallas taken in May raid 

Oct 30, 2019

By Mary Farrow

A Dallas county district judge has ordered Dallas police to return certain documents to the Catholic Diocese of Dallas that... Read more

Presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden makes a speech at a campaign stop at the River Center in Des Moines, Iowa.

Biden communion denial was required by diocesan policy

Oct 30, 2019

By JD Flynn, Matt Hadro

A policy in the Diocese of Charleston, South Carolina requires priests to withhold the Eucharist from politicians and political candidates... Read more

Bishop Robert Barron at the Library of Congress.

Bishop Barron goes to Washington

Oct 30, 2019

By Matt Hadro

Lawmakers must rediscover their call by God to pursue justice, Bishop Robert Barron told members of Congress and staff on... Read more

Bishop Richard Lennon. CNA file photo.

Cleveland Bishop Lennon dies at 72, remembered for love of Church

Oct 30, 2019

Bishop Richard Gerard Lennon died at the age of 72 on Tuesday, Oct. 29 after receiving the sacraments. His colleagues... Read more

Armenian orphans being deported from Turkey, 1920.

House votes to recognize Armenian genocide

Oct 30, 2019

By Matt Hadro

The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to pass a resolution recognizing the genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire.  Read more

Jan Benton.

Meet Jan Benton - leading the charge for inclusion of Catholics with disabilities

Oct 30, 2019

By Christine Rousselle

When Janice Benton was attending college in Michigan, she answered an ad in her parish bulletin that was seeking someone... Read more

Vice president of USA Joe Biden during his visit to Kiev and meeting with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

After communion denial, what does Joe Biden think about abortion?

Oct 30, 2019

By Matt Hadro

Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s denial of reception of Holy Communion in South Carolina on Sunday has renewed scrutiny of his... Read more

Dia de los Muertos in Santa Clara Cemetery, Oxnard, Ca.

Dia de los Muertos about more than the 'bread of the dead,' bishop says

Oct 30, 2019

By Jonah McKeown

Dia de los Muertos, or “Day of the Dead,” is a primarily Mexican way of celebrating the feast of All... Read more

The city of Taiz in southern Yemen. Yemen / Taiz City. 2018-11-02

In UN address, Holy See voices support for ceasefire in Yemen

Oct 29, 2019

A nationwide ceasefire is essential to ease the suffering of the people of Yemen, which has been in a civil... Read more

St. Peter's Cathedral in Belfast.

N. Ireland bishops: Hold politicians responsible for abortion law

Oct 29, 2019

Voters must hold politicians responsible for failing to stop the British Parliament’s radical expansion of legal abortion in Northern Ireland,... Read more

Brain death diagnosis for second Michigan teen raises questions

Oct 29, 2019

For the second time in a month, a family in Michigan is fighting to keep their teenage son on life... Read more

Colorado State Capitol.

Will Colorado tax sacramental wine? A legislative committee is studying the idea

Oct 29, 2019

A bicameral committee in Colorado’s legislature is considering two bills that would tax sacramental wine and insurance premiums paid to... Read more

Ohio Supreme Court.

Ohio Supreme Court will not hear appeal from abortion clinic

Oct 29, 2019

For the second time in three months, Ohio’s top court has refused to hear an appeal from the last abortion... Read more

Archbishop Charles Thompson of Indianapolis, who was appointed June 13, 2017. Photo courtesy of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.

Archdiocese faces third discrimination complaint over same-sex marriage policy

Oct 29, 2019

By Mary Farrow

The Archdiocese of Indianapolis on Wednesday defended its decision not to renew the contract of a school employee who publicly... Read more

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Catholic groups warn of assisted dying risks in House palliative care bill

Oct 29, 2019

By Matt Hadro

The House of Representatives passed a bill late Monday to support palliative care—but Catholic groups are concerned that a key... Read more

Pennsylvania State Rep. Brian Sims.

Doxing state Rep. Brian Sims apologizes, five months later

Oct 29, 2019

Rep. Brian Sims (D-Philadelphia), the subject of an unrelated ethics investigation, wrote a card to the Garecht family of Pennsylvania in... Read more

Alabama abortion ban blocked in federal court

Oct 29, 2019

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked an Alabama law banning most abortions, which passed in May, from going into effect... Read more