A New Orleans-based federal appeals court has issued an order allowing buoys installed by Texas to deter migrants from crossing the Rio Grande to stay in place for now.
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‘Safe Haven for Newborns’ Founder Honored for Catholic Faith, Legacy Saving Infants
A beautiful, 22-year-old woman approached the podium on stage at the Miracle Theater in Coral Gables Aug. 24 as she was being introduced as “Carol Gloria — the very first A Safe Haven for Newborns baby.”
Abortions Rise in Most U.S. States Where the Procedure Remains Legal, Data Shows
Legal abortions most likely increased in the United States in the first six months of 2023 compared with 2020, according to a New York Times analysis of data from the Guttmacher Institute, which opposes abortion restrictions.
Big Question on Campus: Will First-Year Collegians Stay With Their Faith?
As parents around the country recently moved their children into dorm rooms for their first year of college, many might wonder how their sons or daughters will do academically or fit in socially, but another question some are asking is if their children will stick with the faith tradition they were raised in.
Bishops’ Conference Says Proposed Federal Rule Could Limit Work of Catholic Charities
The U.S. bishops said a proposed rule by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services aimed at protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination in federal agency grants could limit the work of Catholic social service agencies.
Baltimore Catholic High School Empowers Future Black Pilots With Flight Academy
By Mary K. Tilghman BALTIMORE (OSV News) — Autumn Marlow, 17, never even boarded a plane before she took her place in the pilot’s seat of a four-seat, single-engine Cessna 172 and flew over the Chesapeake Bay. Marlow is the first student in the Dr. Sandy Ortega Flight Academy, a new enrichment program offered at […]
Providing Healing, Ministries are Priorities as Baltimore Archdiocese Considers Chapter 11
Archbishop William E. Lori told Catholics Sept. 5 that the Archdiocese of Baltimore is considering Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization as one option to deal with lawsuits expected to be filed when the state’s Child Victims Act takes effect Oct. 1.
Surviving 9/11 Attacks Left ‘No Questions About the Reality of God,’ Says Deacon
On a September morning 22 years ago, now-Deacon Paul Carris of the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, settled into his cubicle in a New York skyscraper — the iconic World Trade Center 1, also known as the North Tower.
Lawmaker, Bishop Urge Action as 120,000 Armenians Face ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
A U.S. lawmaker and a Catholic bishop are calling for action to end a months-long blockade that has left some 120,000 ethnic Armenians at risk of what he and other experts are calling “genocide by starvation.”
Federal Judge Orders Texas to Remove Anti-Migrant Buoys from the Rio Grande
A federal judge ordered Texas to remove controversial floating barriers in the Rio Grande and prohibited the state from adding or reinstalling additional buoys in the river aimed at reducing unauthorized border crossings, marking a legal victory for the Biden administration, which opposed their use.