Catholic nuns who have cared for terminally ill patients in New York for over a century have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a state law they say forces them to violate their religious beliefs
A federal judge temporarily halted a South Dakota rule from taking effect that would have made the state one of the hardest places in the U.S. to get abortion pills.
Jason Rivera was no stranger to tensions between New York City cops and some of the communities they police. Wilbert Mora, too, knew it from his youth in East Harlem, and spent his college years thinking about ways to bridge the divide.
Filmmaker Robert Greene knows well the burden of responsibility in making a documentary: It’s the responsibility to the subjects. And in “Procession” the subjects were six men who decades ago were sexually abused by Catholic priests and clergy.
A man was shot to death in Montgomery, Alabama, as he was reportedly sharing the Gospel last weekend. Thomas Hand, Jr., 37, was the husband of former Miss Mississippi Christine Kozlowski Hand. He died at the scene of the crime in front of his 2-year-old child, WLOX-TV reported.
Thousands of police officers lined the pews Friday at St. Patrick’s Cathedral to honor fallen Officer Jason Rivera, who was gunned down with his partner last week in an ambush that left the New York Police Department in mourning and the city on edge.
Trained lay parishioners, known as “guardians,” were the unsung heroes in the Good Shepherd Catholic Community Church response to the hostage situation at nearby Beth Israel Synagogue a few weeks ago.
Loyola University Chicago will host a livestream conversation between Pope Francis and college students from around the world next month as part of the Catholic Church’s preparations for the Synod on Synodality.