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Supreme Court blocks lower court’s ruling that lifted Trump travel ban
UPDATED - The government sought the immediate intervention of the Supreme Court, saying that action was needed to stop lower courts from unraveling the travel provisions that were approved earlier by the top court.
Seminarians, clergy reflect Omaha Archdiocese’s growing Latino community
Born in Mexico, seminarian Juan Jose Gonzalez Lara grew up in South Omaha and has wanted to be a priest since childhood. He is one of three seminarians of Latino heritage studying to be priests in the Archdiocese of Omaha.
N.Y. firefighters march, pray for peers as they recall events of 9/11
Just as in previous years, Fire Department of New York Battalion 57 marched 2.5 miles from the World Trade Center, across the Brooklyn Bridge, ending at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Brooklyn to remember the fallen heroes of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in 2001.
Kansas priest recalls friendship with martyr as beatification nears
In the cozy rectory behind Sts. Peter and Paul Church sits Father Don McCarthy with myriad items relating to his friend, Father Stanley Rother.
California pastor’s youth ministry honored with Lumen Christi Award
UPDATED - A California priest who ministers to the children of migrant workers in the state's Salinas Valley is the winner of the 40th annual Lumen Christi Award of the Catholic Extension Society.
Catholic judicial nominee grilled by senators on her religious views
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, spurred outrage about possible religious tests for judicial appointees when she questioned a Catholic judicial nominee Sept. 6 about what impact her faith would have on her interpretation of the law.
N.Y. court ruling that upholds ban on physician-assisted suicide welcomed
The director of pro-life activities for the New York State Catholic Conference applauded the state's highest court for unanimously determining that the state constitution does not include a fundamental right to physician-assisted suicide.
Irma weakens at it heads north, but leaves path of destruction
The massive hurricane was forecast to die out over southern states later in the week. Officials in Florida and across the Caribbean, meanwhile, started to dig out and evaluate the full scope of the disaster Irma left behind.
Cardinal DiNardo offers prayers for those in path of Hurricane Irma
"As the people off the Gulf Coast just begin to sift through the damage brought by Hurricane Harvey, our nation, tragically, must attempt to comprehend the approach of Hurricane Irma," he said in a statement Sept. 9.
In Florida shelter, exhausted people wait out Hurricane Irma
Those in the shelter have been hunkered down in classrooms and hallways throughout the school, some since Sept. 8, most coming in Sept. 9, while some stragglers continued to make their way in the morning of Sept. 10, just hours before the brunt of the storm was to hit the Tampa Bay area.