Delaware’s House Bill 140 that would legalize physician-assisted suicide narrowly passed the House Human Development Committee Jan. 19 after a three-hour virtual hearing that included passionate testimony from dozens of people on both sides of the issue.
The bill may...
CHILDS, Md. — “All-nighters” at schools conjure up images of students with noses buried in books, caffeinated drinks at the ready, as they prepare for final exams. But at Mount Aviat Academy in Childs, Md., the overnight marathon takes...
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices Jan. 18 seemed to side with a Christian group that was excluded from flying its flag with an image of a cross on it outside of Boston’s City Hall.
The group, Camp Constitution, was told...
MILLTOWN — St. Elizabeth boys basketball coach Mike Cassidy called a timeout with 4:11 left in the third quarter of the Vikings’ game Jan. 18 at Saint Mark’s after Spartans forward Jabri White had gone coast to coast for...
Prominent leaders of the religious freedom movement introduced an organization they say will work to defend religious liberty and support political candidates at all levels of government who back the free practice of religion.
Charging that religious practice is increasingly...
The latest push to legalize physician-assisted suicide is another effort by big-money insurance companies to brush aside people with disabilities and those with illnesses that are handled more easily and cheaply by ending the sick person’s life instead of...
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court sent a challenge to the Texas abortion law back to the state’s Supreme Court Jan. 17.
The decision leaves the law in place and is expected to delay action on reviewing a challenge to...
The week gets off to a slow start because of the federal holiday, with just the Saint Mark’s wrestling team scheduled to be in action on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But after that, it’s back to a more...
WASHINGTON -- The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urged all people of goodwill to commemorate the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the Jan. 17 holiday named for him by remembering...
The University of Notre Dame in Indiana and Georgetown University in Washington are among a group of some 16 private educational institutions named in a lawsuit alleging a conspiracy to fix student financial aid distribution formulas among them.
The effect...