LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal appeals court reaffirmed a hold on an Arkansas law that bans abortions 18 weeks into pregnancy and another banning an abortion from being performed when a fetus is detected to have Down syndrome.
The...
WASHINGTON -- House Democrats introduced a single article of impeachment, charging President Donald Trump with "incitement of insurrection" for his role in a riot at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6.
The introduction Jan. 11 sets the stage for a vote...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis offered prayers for the people of the United States "shaken by the recent siege on Congress" and prayed for the five people who lost their lives "in those dramatic moments" when protesters stormed the...
CLAYMONT — A prescription pill bottle sat on a table, along with a glass of water, in a driveway in the Ashbourne Hills neighborhood in Claymont. There, on a chilly Saturday afternoon, 15-year-old Mateo Ahumada began a new chapter...
WASHINGTON -- Like many across the country, Father William Gurnee and Father Gary Studniewski watched in horror as a rioting mob stormed and ransacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, attempting to disrupt Congress at it certified the Electoral...
VATICAN CITY -- Recognizing "the gifts of each baptized person" -- women and men -- Pope Francis ordered a change to canon law and liturgical norms so that women could be formally installed as lectors and acolytes.
"A consolidated practice...
Winter sports begin this week under strict COVID-19 protocols, but for the athletes and their coaches, that’s better than the alternative. High school basketball picks up a new season more than 10 months after the last games were played....
WASHINGTON -- The wins by Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, both Democrats, in the Jan. 5 U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia will give Democrats the White House and both houses of Congress.
But precisely how that will...
I learned the Act of Contrition in second grade. Mrs. Tartamella would patiently practice with us every day. We'd go through the prayer line by line, and when we'd get to "I firmly resolve, with the help of thy...
Jan. 6, 2021, was an epiphany of sorts for Americans who watched in horror as a mob breached the U.S. Capitol, assaulted police and vandalized offices. It was both shockingly unexpected and shockingly unsurprising given growing extremism, a polarized...