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‘This is between you and Jesus’
“I got to be with Jesus.”
First-time missionary is veteran of Totus Tuus just the same
“There’s nothing quite like it.”
This is the primary health care
By the time you get this paper, I’m sure that I’ll still be celebrating 7-Eleven.
Announcement of abuse allegations concerning Dennis Schmitz
The Catholic Church has a zero-tolerance policy for the sexual abuse of minors, which is applied in the broadest sense of the term.
Kansas Supreme Court overturns abortion ban, clinic regulations
In separate rulings, the Kansas Supreme Court July 5 overturned a ban on a second-trimester surgical abortion procedure known as dilation and evacuation, or D&E, and struck down a series of abortion clinic regulations long...
Pro-life activists sentenced over abortion clinic blockades in Tennessee
The felony sentencing of four pro-life activists for participating in a 2021 blockade of a Mount Juliet, Tennessee, abortion clinic marks nearly the end of the second of three federal trials for abortion clinic blockades this...
Sending 11 of their 13 children to same Catholic high school worth the sacrifice,couple says
When Sarah Mazalewski received her diploma from St. Elizabeth High School June 3, her parents, John and Jackie, went through an experience that is familiar to many dads and moms. With the last child leaving high school, the...
Pro-life activists react to GOP platform change on abortion at Trump’s direction
Members of the Republican National Committee have approved changes to platform on abortion at the direction of former President Donald Trump, the party's presumptive presidential nominee, over the objections of pro-life activists...
Catholic convert says traveling National Eucharistic Pilgrimage feels like God ‘rolling out the red carpet’
Marina Frattaroli describes herself as the National Eucharistic Revival's "first convert," after a related social media post led her to a website describing the church's teaching on Jesus' true presence in the Eucharist.