Johnson suggests Trump’s legislative agenda could ‘redirect’ funds from ‘big abortion’ April 30, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., suggested April 29 the budget blueprint President Donald Trump calls “one big, beautiful bill” could be used as a vehicle to “redirect funds away from big abortion and to federally qualified health centers.”
Trump’s approval rating drops as he reaches 100 days, including among Catholics, polls show April 30, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Immigration and Migration, News, World News As President Donald Trump reached the 100th day of his second term April 29, polls showed decreases in his approval ratings on job performance and key issues, including among Catholics overall.
Biden: ‘All of us who loved Pope Francis need to step up’ April 28, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, News, Remembering Pope Francis, World News Former President Joe Biden mourned the passing of Pope Francis in an opinion piece for USA Today published April 28, calling for people to honor the late pontiff by “making his legacy a living legacy. A living faith. A faith of caring and compassion — and mercy.”
Washington Roundup: Trump, Biden to attend papal funeral; ‘Anti-Christian bias’ task force convened April 25, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Vatican, World News President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, a bipartisan congressional delegation, and former President Joe Biden are among the U.S. officials traveling to Rome for Pope Francis’ funeral.
State Department urged to prioritize human rights, humanitarian aid in reorganization April 24, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, DOGE cuts, News, World News Debates over a plan to reorganize the State Department should seek to improve American “efforts in the world at diplomacy and global citizenship,” and should prioritize human rights and humanitarian efforts, a leading foreign policy expert told OSV News.
High court hears Maryland parents’ case seeking classroom opt-out of LGBTQ+ themed books April 24, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court April 22 heard a case concerning a request from an interfaith group of Maryland parents to allow them to opt their children out of classroom instruction pertaining to books containing LGBTQ+ themes to which they object on religious grounds.
Pope Francis’ approach to key issues did not fit neatly in U.S. politics, experts say April 23, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News Pope Francis’ approach to key issues including his concern for the environment, immigration and abortion did not fit neatly into American political ideologies, Catholic political and theology experts told OSV News.
Trump plans to attend Pope Francis’ funeral; orders US flags flown at half staff April 22, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump plan to attend the funeral of Pope Francis, he said April 21. He also directed federal flags be flown at half-staff in the late pontiff’s honor.
White House, U.S. political leaders react to death of Pope Francis April 21, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News President Donald Trump, officials in his administration and other U.S. political leaders issued statements expressing condolences for Pope Francis after the pontiff’s death April 21 at age 88.
El Salvador president says he won’t return erroneously deported, imprisoned man to U.S. April 15, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Trump administration officials and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on April 14 dismissed arguments that an erroneously deported Maryland man should be returned to the United States from a prison where he is being held in El Salvador.
Catholic leaders, public officials condemn violence after attack on governor’s residence April 14, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News Catholic leaders and public officials condemned violence and called for peace after an alleged arson attack on the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
U.S. bishops support bill easing immigrant religious workers’ path to permanent residency April 11, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vocations, World News The U.S. bishops on April 10 told congressional lawmakers they support bipartisan legislation that would ease some immigration restrictions on religious workers from other countries, allowing them to stay in the U.S. while they wait for permanent residency.
