Kate Scanlon, OSV News

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump met with Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Jan. 12,...

WASHINGTON-- The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 13 heard oral arguments in two cases concerning state laws requiring student athletes to compete on sports...

WASHINGTON -- After President Donald Trump told House Republicans to be "flexible" on the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits public funding of elective abortions, in...

The Wyoming Supreme Court on Jan. 6 found that two state laws restricting abortion -- including the first state law to specifically ban chemical...

As deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro made his first appearance Jan. 5 in a New York courtroom on narco-terrorism charges after the Trump administration...

WASHINGTON -- In a year that brought both a new U.S. president and a new pope, the issue of immigration emerged as a flashpoint...

WASHINGTON  -- Approximately 50 Planned Parenthood clinics closed in 2025 as the group lost its ability to bill Medicaid, according to a report by...

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump, the State Department, and members of Congress expressed concern after Hong Kong's prominent Catholic media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner...

WASHINGTON -- The Little Sisters of the Poor appealed an August ruling from a federal district court that struck down a religious conscience rule,...

WASHINGTON -- Although there was a significant increase in executions in the U.S. in 2025, a smaller number of new death sentences was imposed,...