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US bishops urge anti-suicide provisions in proposal for end-of-life counseling

Sep 9, 2015

A federal proposal focusing on health care counseling for end-of-life decision making needs further additions, including strong exclusions of assisted... Read more

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Kansas City Chiefs’ placekicker Harrison Butker speaks to college graduates in his commencement address at Benedictine College on Saturday, May 11, 2024.

Harrison Butker supported by Kansas City bishop, prominent Catholics amid speech backlash

Jessica Tapia displays a sign outside the Garden Grove Unified School District board meeting on behalf of the Teachers Don’t Lie program.

California teacher fired for religious beliefs gets six-figure payout in court

In an interview with 60 Minutes' Norah O'Donnell, airing this Sunday, Pope Francis took aim at his “conservative critics” in the United States.

Pope Francis says conservative critics have a ‘suicidal attitude’

Pope Francis converses with Metropolitan Agathangelos, director general of the Apostolikí Diakonía of the Greek Orthodox Church, at the Vatican on May 16, 2024.

Pope Francis: Young people ‘can break the chains of antagonism’ between Catholics, Orthodox

Mark Kretschmer, vice president for operations at Thomas Aquinas College (TAC), pictured with Thomas Kaiser, a biologist and researcher, and Lawerence Youngblood, an electrical engineer and director of Brompton Energy.

Thomas Aquinas College goes off the grid with green power plan

Washington Surgi-Clinic on F St. NW in Washington, D.C., on April 7, 2022.

Pro-lifers imprisoned under FACE Act speak out

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa gives the homily at a Mass in which he took possession of his titular church, St. Onuphrius, in Rome on May 1, 2024.

Cardinal Pizzaballa visits Gaza in show of support, solidarity with ‘suffering population’

Archbishop Bernard Bober of Košice, chairman of the Slovak Bishops’ Conference, expressed deep regret over the violent incident and condemned what authorities are now treating as an act of attempted murder.

Slovak bishops call for peace after assassination attempt on prime minister

Parental and religious freedom rights advocates, including a group of Muslim parents, on June 6, 2023, protest a Maryland school system policy that removes parents’ authority to opt their children out of homosexual and transgender coursework.

Court says Maryland parents have no right to opt out of LGBTQ curriculum

PAAU activists hold a rally outside Washington Surgi-Clinic in Washington, D.C., May 4, 2022.

Lawmakers renew calls to repeal the FACE Act

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