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Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News
Legislation that would require clergy to report child abuse or neglect in Washington state was signed into law by Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson May 2.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News
President Donald Trump on May 1 signed an executive order creating a religious liberty commission during an interfaith event marking the National Day of Prayer in the White House Rose Garden.
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Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News
The U.S. Supreme Court on April 30 heard oral argument in a case concerning the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City’s effort to establish the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which would be the nation’s first publicly funded Catholic charter school if it survives the challenge.
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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.”
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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