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Bishops urge U.S. House committee to include pro-life policies in proposed...

WASHINGTON — The chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life and international policy committees have urged the House Appropriations Committee and all members of Congress...

Republican lawmakers urge Congress to make Hyde Amendment permanent

WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and several other Republican leaders in the House asked their Democratic counterparts June 22 to take...

Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville urges pathway to citizenship for ‘Dreamers’ on...

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ migration committee marked the ninth anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program June 15...

Provocative Wisconsin priest says Bishop Callahan asked for his resignation because...

WASHINGTON -- Father James Altman, pastor of St. James the Less Parish in La Crosse, Wisconsin, told Massgoers May 23 that Bishop William P....

Bishop James Wall on abortion, Communion: ‘Why aren’t we seeking eucharistic...

WASHINGTON -- It's "a fair question," said Bishop James S. Wall of Gallup, New Mexico, to ask whether U.S. bishops "are cherry-picking" from among...

Title X provision ‘draws a bright line between abortion and family...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has published a proposed rule to rescind the Trump administration's enforcement of a Title...

U.S. bishops support pandemic relief legislation, urge removal of abortion funding...

WASHINGTON -- If it passes and becomes law, the American Rescue Plan Congress is considering would pit the great need Americans have for economic...

Equality Act passes House; U.S. bishops say it ‘can also be...

WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives passed the Equality Act in a 224-206 vote Feb. 25. A couple days ahead of the vote, the chairmen...

President Biden tells National Prayer Breakfast: ‘Faith shows the way forward...

WASHINGTON -- For many in the nation, this is a dark time because of job loss, hunger, evictions, sickness and death because of COVID-19,...

President Joe Biden rescinds ‘Mexico City policy,’ allowing U.S. funding to...

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden's memo rescinding the so-called "Mexico City policy" Jan. 28, the eve of this year's March for Life, "is a...

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