WASHINGTON -- Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., a longtime champion of religious liberty, particularly in Tibet, proudly wears a bracelet of brown prayer beads, called mala, given to him by the Dalai Lama during a visit to India in 2024.
Their...
WILMINGTON – A 15-point run in the first quarter set Padua on the right path on the way to a 57-43 win over Howard in a girls basketball battle on Jan.13 on Broom Street. It was the Pandas' fourth...
LOS ANGELES -- It was a picture-perfect December afternoon in Pacific Palisades, and the sounds of a neighborhood coming back to life were in the air: the steady drone of jackhammers, the hum of emergency generators, the squeals of...
Father John Aurilia, OFM Cap, the former assistant to St. Padre Pio whose final interview last October on Catholic Forum broke records as it was viewed nearly 300,000 times, died Jan. 13 in Wilmington. He was 86.
Father Aurilia worked...
The “Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children” will be observed in Dover on Jan. 22, the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision by the United States Supreme Court in 1973. The commemoration, which takes...
The 2026 national March for Life promises to bring tens of thousands of pro-life Americans to the nation's capital to celebrate the beauty of every human person, born and unborn, with the theme "Life Is a Gift."
"'Life is a...
There's been a lot written about falling birth rates in the United States. Less covered has been the simultaneous decline in grandparenthood.
Grandparents, to hear friends tell it, are an endangered species. Virtually every child-bearing demographic group except women over...
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump met with Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Jan. 12, a spokesperson for the USCCB confirmed.
The private meeting, which was listed on the official White...
As the nation's Catholics are set to remember unborn children in prayer, a U.S. bishop is stressing that amid several positive developments in safeguarding human life, "many challenges remain" in making abortion "unthinkable."
"Our united prayers, sacrifices and efforts to...
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 teams that correspond to their biological sex rather than their gender identity.
The attorneys general of...