Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service
Trump administration plan to change how inflation is measured concerns advocates...
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is weighing a plan that uses a different definition of inflation to determine who lives in poverty and who...
50 years on, moon landing still generates a wistful sense of...
WASHINGTON — When Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong gingerly stepped onto the surface of the moon July 20, 1969, Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno had...
Students plan to raise nuclear weapon dangers in fall return to...
WASHINGTON — At the start of his senior year at The Catholic University of America last fall, Tim Jones never thought he’d be joining...
Volunteer gardener at crisis maternity home provides balm for the wounded
WASHINGTON — Outside of a week or two in the darkest days of winter, it’s always gardening season for Jana Hukriede.
A key volunteer at...
Analysis: Support for paid family leave gains support, but compromise needed
WASHINGTON -- Polls of workers, surveys of employers and even informal conversations on Capitol Hill show strong support for a formal paid family leave...
Bishops say EPA plan to roll back pollution rule would harm...
WASHINGTON — Unborn children would face greater health risks if the Environmental Protection Agency moves to rescind a rule regulating hazardous air pollutants emitted...
Analysis: With immediacy comes responsibility in the 24/7 social media world
WASHINGTON — The image on social media was striking. A smiling teenager wearing a red "Make America Great Again" baseball cap and a Native...
Government shutdown beginning to impact Catholic-run social services
WASHINGTON – Robert Archie knows he'd be homeless if it wasn't for the Rapid Re-housing program run by Catholic Charities of the Diocese of...
Judges block expansion of religious exemptions to HHS mandate
WASHINGTON — Two federal judges temporarily blocked the government from putting into effect new rules that would expand the exemption to the federal contraceptive...
Efforts to confront human trafficking get boost as Trump reauthorizes prevention...
WASHINGTON -- Nationwide efforts to confront human trafficking received a boost in the new year as President Donald Trump signed a bill reauthorizing federal...