WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court in orders issued May 23 remanded two Catholic entities’ legal challenges to the federal contraceptive mandate back to the […]
Court remands two HHS challenges to lower courts ‘in light of Zubik’
Pope Benedict denies latest rumors about Fatima ‘secret’
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Sixteen years after the Vatican released the text of the so-called Third Secret of Fatima, rumors cyclically arise claiming that the Vatican […]
Tournament sets goals of friendship, nets goals for players
ROME (CNS) — When Emmanuele Trincas described Roman Cocco as a “bomber” on the soccer field, they both laughed, but it also gave Cocco the confidence […]
House OKs bill allowing more ways to protect religious freedom worldwide
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. House May 16 unanimously passed the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act, giving the Obama administration and the U.S. State Department […]
South Carolina Legislature passes bill to ban abortions at 20 weeks
COLUMBIA, S.C. (CNS) — The South Carolina Legislature passed a bill that makes abortion illegal at 20 weeks of pregnancy or later. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child […]
Catholic values drive head coach of Ravens on and off the field
BALTIMORE (CNS) — The accomplishment of winning the Super Bowl in February 2013 as the head coach of the Baltimore Ravens gave John Harbaugh a crowning […]
To ignore the poor is to despise God, pope says at general audience
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — How Christians treat the poor is the clearest demonstration of their relationship with God, Pope Francis insisted. “To ignore the poor is […]
Study of women deacons won’t be first, but might answer questions
When Pope Francis accepted a proposal at the Vatican May 12 to form a commission to study the possibility of women serving as deacons today, it […]