Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON -- During a Feb. 27 congressional hearing about the status of the nation's refugee program, Auxiliary Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville of Washington quoted...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court announced Feb. 24 that in its next term it will examine if the city of Philadelphia can exclude...

WASHINGTON — Mercy Sister Mary Scullion, co-founder and executive director of Project HOME, an organization that helps the homeless in Philadelphia, was one of...

WASHINGTON — Presidents and school officials from Catholic colleges and universities around the country kicked off their four-day meeting in Washington by looking squarely...

WASHINGTON — During oral arguments Jan. 22 about the constitutionality of excluding religious schools from a scholarship aid program, a divided Supreme Court seemed...

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump announced his administration's new guidance on prayer in public schools during a Jan. 16 event in the Oval Office...

WASHINGTON — At a packed funeral Mass in Boston Dec. 13 for Pete Frates, whose battle with ALS helped propel the viral ice bucket...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge Nov. 20 temporarily blocked the executions of four federal death-row inmates scheduled for December and January, saying the lethal...

WASHINGTON — Jeannie Gaffigan didn’t initially set out to write a book about having her brain tumor removed. It is a story that pretty much...

BALTIMORE -- The day after the U.S. bishops were encouraged at their Baltimore meeting to bring young people back to the church, they were...