Catholics working to address the nation's fentanyl problem told OSV News a new congressional report naming China -- and blaming its government -- as the key source of the drug is important but old news, and that healing rising rates of addiction
President Joe Biden's wide-ranging executive order to extend existing federal nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ people exceeds the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2020 ruling on the issue in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, said the chairmen of five U.S. bishops' committees.
In so doing,
Several women protesting the Catholic Church's teaching against abortion disrupted an annual Respect Life Mass being celebrated by Bishop Robert J. Brennan at a downtown Columbus cathedral.
The protesters, which a video posted by The Columbus Dispatch showed to number about seven, stormed
When they vote, Catholics must weigh many issues of very grave moral consequence "in good conscience," but "no Catholic in good conscience can favor abortion," San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said Jan. 21.
"'Right to choose' is a smokescreen for perpetuating an
Last year, evangelical pastor Francis Chan made waves in Christian circles when a sermon he gave to his Protestant congregation went viral for sounding very Catholic. Preaching about Christ’s desire for unity among his followers and the division among today’s Christians, Chan
Even though "peaceful prayer and witness" will take place in a different format due to the ongoing pandemic, it "must and will continue this year" to mark the 48th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, said the
Within hours of being sworn-in Wednesday, President Joe Biden was poised to send Congress an ambitious immigration bill that would begin to undo many of his predecessor’s policies. In a new report from Our Sunday Visitor, Catholic immigration advocates acknowledge that some
In his inaugural address Jan. 20, President Joe Biden said he is committed with his "whole soul" to bring this country together.
He pleaded with Americans -- having come through a bitter election, a time of racial reckoning and still in the midst
As Joe Biden prepared to be inaugurated as the 46th U.S. president, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, expressed hope the incoming administration "will work with the church and others of goodwill" to
Hours before his inauguration as president, Joe Biden and incoming Vice President Kamala Harris were joined by the spouses and congressional leaders from both political parties for what was termed a Mass of thanksgiving early Jan. 20 at St. Matthew Cathedral in
New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said he hoped the "renewal and rededication that usually accompanies the inauguration of a new president" also will be a time for violence to subside and civil discourse to resume.
He also hoped "respect for the sacredness