A 30-year-old man believed to be homeless was arrested and charged with the commission of an act of terrorism following a threat he allegedly emailed to a music minister at St. Louis Catholic Church in Memphis, Tenn., claiming he wanted to “butcher” people in the church with a machete.
U.S. lawmakers push anti-discrimination bill to protect pregnancy resource centers
The language of the latest incarnation of the Let Pregnancy Centers Serve Act, a bill aimed at protecting more than 2,700 pregnancy resource centers nationwide from federal and state interference, is not radically different than the language of the one introduced in Congress last year.
4 pro-life activists found guilty, spared jail time for N.J. abortion clinic ‘rescue’ event
Four pro-life activists, including two pardoned by President Donald Trump in January for earlier convictions under the FACE Act, were found guilty of trespassing March 14 for their 2019 “rescue” at a New Jersey abortion clinic. However, they will not face jail time.
Group’s plans for ‘black mass’ at Kansas Statehouse prompt widespread outcry
A Satanic group’s plans for a so-called “black mass” in the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka on March 28 have energized widespread Catholic condemnation.
Biblical tales old and new abound during Lent
Vintage biblical epics sprout like daffodils during Lent, which begins with Ash Wednesday on March 5.
Movie Review: ‘I’m Still Here’
“I’m Still Here” (Sony Pictures Classics) is an adaptation of Marcelo Paiva’s 2015 memoir recounting how his family survived the worst years of Brazil’s military junta in the 1970s.
New abortion clinic trial in New Jersey involves a hermit, a friar and two laypeople
Despite President Donald Trump’s January pardons of 23 people convicted of violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinics Act, or FACE Act, at least one prosecution of pro-life activists accused of violating a local law by disrupting an abortion clinic is moving ahead.
Pardoned pro-lifers describe their legal ordeal, what lies ahead for their activism
On Jan. 23, the president pardoned Paulette Harlow and 22 other pro-life activists convicted of violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinics Act, or FACE Act.
For 125 years, society has had a mission to produce Catholic resources for the blind
The Xavier Society for the Blind is celebrating 125 years of helping generations of Catholics, either blind or vision-impaired, participate in worship through braille texts, large-type books and audio books.
Trump pardons 23 pro-life activists convicted of FACE Act violations
On the eve of the national March for Life rally in Washington, President Donald Trump announced Jan. 23 he was issuing pardons for 23 protesters arrested for violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinics (FACE) Act.
Movie Review: ‘Better Man’
If nothing else, “Better Man” (Paramount), the biopic of British pop star Robbie Williams, avoids the familiar formula of show business sagas. Most fundamentally, that’s because Williams voices himself as a CGI chimpanzee.
Thomas Little, former pastoral associate for Eastern Vicariate, dies at 76
Thomas Edward Little of Catonsville, a former pastoral associate for the Eastern Vicariate of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and pastoral associate for evangelization and adult faith formation at Our Lady of the Fields in Millersville, was an energetic educator, an astute organizer and well-known for his love of singing, Notre Dame football and tropical shirts.