Catholic Charities USA and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, known as CLINIC, expressed disappointment with the Supreme Court’s Jan. 27 order allowing the Trump administration to go forward with a new rule meant to limit immigrants’ use of government benefit programs.
Some hail the Iowa caucuses as one of America’s greatest displays of democracy in action – although some Catholic priests in the state say that for them, it’s a form of disenfranchisement.
Following the untimely death on Sunday of Los Angeles basketball superstar Kobe Bryant, the city’s Catholic archbishop offered prayers and condolences to his family.
Pro-lifers from parishes in the Diocese of Brooklyn joined the annual pilgrimage to March for Life, making the four-hour trek from New York to Washington D.C. and back.
Seven in 10 American adults support “significant” restrictions on abortion, according to a new poll released in advance of the annual March for Life.
Proclaiming his successor as “exactly the man our church needs,” Archbishop Charles J. Chaput introduced Bishop Nelson J. Perez, whom Pope Francis named as the next archbishop of Philadelphia, at a Jan. 23 news conference in Philadelphia.
President Donald Trump’s presence at the annual March for Life in Washington on Jan. 24 will provide a boost to the pro-life movement, local pro-life advocates say.
Pope Francis has tapped Bishop Nelson Perez to be the new Archbishop of Philadelphia, replacing retiring Archbishop Charles Chaput with a native priest of the archdiocese.
Leading up to the annual March for Life in the nation’s capital, Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., spoke to The Tablet Jan. 20, about the status of the pro-life movement in what he referred to as ‘a very active battlefield.’
Sisters Elaine and Jeanie Hagerdorn, CHM, are real life “sister sisters,” — members of the Congregation of the Humility of Mary — who have been actively involved in every presidential election since 1960, when John F. Kennedy became the first Catholic in the country to be elected president.
