National News
Our Sunday Visitor to launch new Catholic news service
The Indiana-based Catholic publisher will fill the void left by the closure of the U.S. arm of Catholic News Service in January 2023 with OSV News. Meanwhile, Catholic journalists searched for new pathways in Catholic media.
Creators of ‘Bible in a Year’ podcast win national media award
Father Mike Schmitz and Jeff Cavins of Ascension Press received the 2022 Cardinal John P. Foley Award for innovative storytelling from the Catholic Media Association July 6 at its annual convention.
National Seton shrine breaks ground on $4 million museum
When the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Maryland opens its new museum and visitors center next year, it will be a milestone for those with a deep devotion to America's first native-born saint.
Police deflect rioters from Portland church, avert vandalism
Police officers drove dozens of anarchist rioters away from Holy Redeemer Church late July 1, following a rally with the intent to "Abolish SCOTUS." Parishioners had earlier barricaded the church.
After shooting, cardinal urges unity to ‘build path to safety and peace’
After a Mass shooting in a Chicago suburb July 4 in which seven people were killed and 30 injured, Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich said guns "designed to rapidly destroy human bodies have no place in civil society."
Supreme Court allows Biden to end Trump-era migrant policy
The "Remain in Mexico" policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for their asylum hearings may be rescinded, cheering Catholic advocates.
Court allows vaccine mandate without religious exemption
The Supreme Court June 30 rejected a challenge to New York's vaccine mandate for health care workers with no religious exemption.
Pray for migrants who died in truck, archbishop says
The archbishop of San Antonio offered prayers for some 53 people found dead June 27 in sweltering conditions in a truck, part of the worst smuggling operation in U.S. history.
Ruling on private school funding prompts new look at Blaine amendments
The 19th century laws prohibiting public funds being used to support religious schools -- a vestige of American anti-Catholicism -- are under scrutiny after the Supreme Court ruled on the issue June 21.
After Roe’s reversal, a call to ‘redouble’ efforts to help women
"As happy as we may be" with the June 24 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Baltimore's archbishop said it's not a cause for celebration but for renewed efforts "to help women in difficult pregnancies."