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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 30 in favor of a Christian web designer who argued she had a First Amendment right to refuse to provide services for same-sex marriages despite a Colorado law prohibiting discrimination against...
Zach Spence, a 2019 graduate of Salesianum School, was recently honored at the University of Maryland for his academic achievements. Spence, a member of the Terrapins’ wrestling team, won the Gearey F. Eppley Award, which goes to the male senior...
A recording played in a Fort Worth, Texas, courtroom June 27 appeared to include a Carmelite superior's April confession of sexual misconduct via a mobile phone with a priest later revealed to be from the Diocese of Raleigh, North...
The tray of food was sitting on the bedstand in front of her looking exactly as it did when it was presented from the kitchen. Mom was curled up in bed in her hospital room and the raspy-throated nurse was...
Q: I am getting married and the priest my fiancé and I met with said we need new baptismal certificates. Why can’t we just use the ones our parents got when we were baptized? (Portland, Me.) A: Baptismal certificates aren’t...
Upholding religious liberty must entail mutual respect, said Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia. On his most recent "Walk Humbly" podcast, Bishop Burbidge observed, "What we believe and know to be true is at odds with...
Our oldest son, who just finished kindergarten, loves to visit national parks and participate in their Junior Ranger programs. A few months ago he accompanied me on a trip to Springfield, Ill., where we visited the Abraham Lincoln Home...
O God our Creator, from your provident hand we have received our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You have called us as your people and given us the right and the duty to worship you, the...
Disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is not competent to stand trial in Massachusetts on charges that he sexually abused a teenage boy nearly 50 years ago, according to the prosecution's expert brought in to examine the now 92-year-old. On Thursday,...
WILMINGTON — A reception originally scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. was delayed by three hours, but no one seemed to care. After all, this group had waited three years to get to this moment. So even though the clock...