Patricia Zapor, Catholic News Service
Capitol address: Scenes from pope’s speech to Congress
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — As Pope Francis spoke to a joint meeting of Congress Sept. 24, the members of the House and Senate vacillated...
Supreme Court upholds execution drug use
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — In another in a series of bitterly divided end-of-term cases, the Supreme Court June 29 upheld the execution protocol used...
Court rules same-sex marriage legal nationwide
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In a landmark ruling, a divided Supreme Court June 26 said same-sex marriage is constitutional nationwide.
"The nature of marriage...
Supreme Court upholds health care subsidies in states with federal exchanges
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Writing that "Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them," a 6-3...
5th Circuit says HHS accommodation on mandate not a burden on...
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The religious rights of faith-based entities -- including the dioceses of Fort Worth and Beaumont, Texas, and the University...
Supreme Court lets block on North Carolina ultrasound law stand
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court June 15 left a lower court ruling intact that blocked North Carolina’s law requiring physicians to perform...
Obama thanks Catholic Health Association for support of Affordable Care Act
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — Telling the Catholic Health Association that he was there to say thank you, President Barack Obama June 9 recalled the...
Survey shows increase in Americans who aren’t part of any religion...
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — A major study of the religious landscape of the United States shows a continuing decline in the number of people...
Bishops call for dismantling U.S. immigrant detention system — ‘Goes against...
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WASHINGTON — A scathing new report on the conditions under which immigrants are detained concludes with the U.S. bishops’ recommendation that the...
Mercy Sister Mary Ann Walsh, Vatican correspondent, church spokeswoman, dies
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ALBANY, N.Y. — Mercy Sister Mary Ann Walsh, who went from hometown schoolteacher to Vatican correspondent, lived out her drive to be...