WASHINGTON -- An interfaith group of Maryland parents has asked a federal appeals court to allow them to opt their children out of classroom instruction pertaining to books containing LGBTQ+ themes to which they object on religious grounds.
Becket, a...
A friend of Dorothy Day's told her that her children had called Peter Maurin "ragged and unkempt." They were sure "that he never bathed, and he seemed to sleep in his clothes." When Day asked him why he didn't...
WASHINGTON -- After a raucous jury trial, five pro-life activists face as many as 11 years in federal prison for convictions to conspire to blockade a Washington abortion clinic in 2020.
Convicted Aug. 29 in U.S. District Court for the...
HONOLULU -- In the aftermath of the wildfires that destroyed the historic town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, one of Tonata Lolesio's priorities as the principal of Sacred Hearts School there has been to get the children...
First Saturday Mass will be celebrated at St. Francis Xavier Shrine at Bohemia Mission on Saturday, Sept. 2 at 11 a.m. Father Paul Mast will be the presider.
Father Mast, a retired priest of the Diocese of Wilmington, will hear...
DEDHAM, Mass. -- The Massachusetts sex abuse case against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick fell apart Wednesday as all criminal charges were dismissed due to the disgraced former cleric being deemed no longer mentally competent.
Dedham District Court Judge Michael Pomarole...
By Silvio Cuéllar
OSV News
In today's world, we are surrounded by constant noise and distractions. At home, we are always connected to media such as smartphones, computers, television and tablets. In the car, we are also saturated by noise and...
"Uh, we had something happen," Father Joseph Crowley told the congregation March 5 near the end of Mass at St. Thomas Church in Thomaston, Connecticut, a parish once pastored by Knights of Columbus founder Blessed Michael McGivney.
Visibly rattled, he...
MARYKNOLL, N.Y. —Sister Mary Reese, a Wilmington native who was a Maryknoll Sister for 77 years, died Aug. 17 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center. She was 100.
Born on Dec. 8, 1922, Sister Mary was the daughter of Elizabeth and...
WASHINGTON -- After activists for legal abortion pushed back on some Republican presidential candidates' criticism of some state abortion laws as being without limits, a prominent pro-life group cast those arguments as disingenuous and said some states actually do...