By Daniel Payne Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 12, 2023 / 11:15 am A recently formed pro-life network is preparing to administer the inaugural $2 million budget of Kansas’ newly created state-backed “Alternatives to Abortion” program. The state treasurer’s office said in a press release last week that “a Kansas-based nonprofit has been selected to …

By Daniel Payne Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 9, 2023 / 05:00 am Few young people can claim to have distinctly felt the healing touch of God or to have survived major bouts of serious cancer. Fewer still can say they’ve launched a foundation meant to help other young cancer survivors as …

By Daniel Payne Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 31, 2023 / 11:55 am Pope Francis this week confirmed the appointment of a Pittsburgh priest as the bishop of a Byzantine Catholic eparchy serving several midwestern U.S. states, the Vatican announced Thursday. In its regular update of resignations and appointments, the Holy See …

By Daniel Payne Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 15, 2023 / 09:59 am Honolulu Bishop Larry Silva visited the town of Lahaina Tuesday to celebrate Mass and meet survivors of the wildfires that he said “shockingly devastated” the town. While the scope of the crisis has been “overwhelming,” the response from the …

By Daniel Payne Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 12, 2023 / 08:00 am Seminarian enrollment in the United States has been on a decadeslong decline as fewer young men seek out the priesthood and the number of active priests in the U.S. continues to dwindle. But some dioceses are reporting a notable …

By Daniel Payne Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 9, 2023 / 13:30 pm The U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday claimed to have uncovered evidence of “multiple” field offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation coordinating an investigation into traditionalist Catholics earlier this year. A leaked memo from the FBI’s Richmond, Virginia, …

By Daniel Payne Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 25, 2023 / 11:24 am Support for marriage and marriage rates themselves have sharply declined among young people in recent years, leading experts to offer various explanations for the troubling trends as well as potential solutions to reverse them. Data has long pointed toward …

By Daniel Payne Washington D.C., Jul 25, 2023 / 13:50 pm The governance of Catholic higher education in the United States is continuing to shift as fewer and fewer of the faithful enter into religious vocations and a growing number of secular directors take over leadership roles in educational institutions. The …

By Daniel Payne Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 25, 2023 / 08:17 am A slow but steady effort to bring an explicitly Catholic-focused rehabilitation facility to Arizona is coming together as a small group of activists works to build the program bit by bit. The Kolbe Mission, based out of Phoenix, is working …

By Daniel Payne Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 18, 2023 / 10:05 am House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Monday threatened to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress if the bureau does not comply with congressional subpoenas related to evidence that the agency may have spied on Catholic …