Newly released research shows that most Americans and majorities of mainline Protestants and Catholics think abortion should be legal in all or most cases, as the country remains deeply divided on
Civil rights leader and Baptist minister, the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., 80, was hospitalized after falling and cutting his head at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on Monday.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday regarding a Texas law that prohibits most abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, weighing whether to allow abortion rights advocates to sue the state in federal court.
Americans think they know a lot about the first Thanksgiving, with many envisioning it as happy Pilgrims wearing big buckles and feasting on huge, fat turkeys. But the facts are actually more fascinating than fiction.
Did you know that you can get a plenary indulgence any day this November? It’s true. The Vatican has decided to grant Catholics who visit a cemetery to pray for the dead on any day in the month of November a plenary indulgence.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas submitted a document Oct. 29 he hopes will lead to the eventual end of a policy designed to keep asylum-seekers to the U.S. on the Mexico side of the southern border until their cases are heard.
In an Oct. 27 address at the University of Notre Dame, Cardinal Gerhard Müller stressed the importance of proclaiming the human dignity of every person, from conception until natural death.
The homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse headed toward opening statements on Tuesday after a jury was seated in just a day despite the polarizing nature of the case.
The U.S. Bishops’ Conference point person for the Synod on Synodality and dioceses nationwide welcome the Vatican’s extension of the diocesan phase after what in many places was a rushed start to the opening on Oct. 17.
A 28-year-old man was arrested on Monday evening after bringing a gun to the former parish of a recently-arrested priest in Providence and threatening the priest and parishioners.
Supporters of the Texas Heartbeat Act rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court Monday while justices deliberated challenges to the state’s new law, which bans most abortions after approximately six weeks of gestation.
