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The Church’s social doctrine offers a framework for evaluating modern political choices by applying enduring truths about human dignity to contemporary challenges. As voters consider candidates…
The Department of Defense intends to televise the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist sentenced to death for the 2009 massacre at Fort…
Archbishop Christophe Z. El-Kassis, the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, called for a global pause on capital punishment during an address…
The Tennessee Catholic Conference issued a formal appeal on October 2 urging state authorities to abolish capital punishment and replace it with life imprisonment without parole.…
A coalition of legal experts and child rights advocates has formally requested that the United Nations recognize commercial surrogacy as a contemporary form of slavery. The…
A recent study published in the Journal of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine reveals that physicians rarely screen patients for coercion before performing abortions. The research…
Delegates from 35 countries convened in Bali, Indonesia, for the 11th International Congress of Scholas Chairs, a three-day gathering that closed on September 6. Scholas Occurrentes…
Pope Leo XIV met with delegates from the St. Vincent de Paul Society of the United States in late August, emphasizing that spiritual life and care…
Pope Leo XIV shared lunch with homeless and poor people at Castel Gandolfo on July 11, 2026, an event that is expected to become an annual…
The Catholic Diocese of Brownsville is gathering information about the Sunday arrest of a Nigerian-born religious sister who was detained by federal immigration agents while walking…
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