Father Pat Murphy remembers a family that for six months stayed and worked at La Casa Del Migrante in Tijuana, Mexico, and was on the verge of humanitarian parole before they fell susceptible to a smuggler and tried to enter the U.S. illegally.
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Biden Administration: Doctors Must Offer Abortion if a Mother’s Life at Risk
The head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Monday healthcare providers must offer abortion services if the life of a mother is at risk and that procedures conducted under such circumstances would be protected under federal law regardless of various state bans.
After Fires Set, Pastor Encourages People to Remember ‘We Are the Church’
A Catholic church in the Washington suburb of Bethesda was one of three houses of worship along the same road to be victimized by vandalism the weekend of July 9-10.
Hundreds Comfort One Another, Grieve Together at Mass After Shooting
Hundreds of people gathered the evening of July 5 at Immaculate Conception Church in Highland Park to offer one another comfort and grieve together in the wake of the mass shooting that killed seven people and injured dozens more at the community’s Independence Day parade.
Pro-life Leader Says Executive Order Is Effort ‘To Appease Abortion Lobby’
A national pro-life leader said President Joe Biden’s July 8 executive order on abortion “confirmed the White House is working to appease the abortion lobby to the detriment of women and their unborn children.”
History of St. Peter’s Basilica, Paris Cathedral on Exhibit in Washington
A swirling image and the sounds of a whirlpool let exhibit visitors know that through the magic of technology, they will soon be transported to a different time and place.
Biden Signs Executive Order on Abortion Access
President Joe Biden is expected to outline formalized instructions to the Department of Justice and Health and Human Services in order to protect abortion access, just two weeks after the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to the procedure.
Journalists Attend Meeting to Discuss Future Without ‘Catholic News Service’ in U.S.
U.S. Catholic media professionals left a July 7 roundtable discussion with more information about a newly announced Catholic news wire service from Our Sunday Visitor (OSV), but overall there were many unanswered questions about what it will look like and how the changes will affect the Catholic media landscape.
Sister Campbell, Trumka, 15 Others Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
Sister Simone Campbell, a longtime advocate for economic justice and health care policy, and late labor leader Richard Trumka received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in a White House ceremony.
U.S. Bishops Call For Change After ‘Repeated Acts of Violence’
In the wake of another mass shooting in the United States, multiple United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) committee chairmen are appealing to people from different walks of life to advocate against an increasing nationwide gun violence trend.