Kate Scanlon, OSV News

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,...

WASHINGTON -- In a Dec. 11 court filing, a federal judge in Maryland ordered the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national and...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said in a wide-ranging interview with Politico published Dec. 9 that he would be open to meeting with Pope...

WASHINGTON — The head of the U.S. military archdiocese on Dec. 3 urged respect for the human person and the rule of law amid...

WASHINGTON  -- Despite an uptick in executions in the U.S. in 2025, opponents of the death penalty lauded decreases in new death sentences and...