Catholic faith

Parents filed a lawsuit against their daughter’s school after she attempted suicide following secret gender identity meetings with staff.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tweeted Wednesday that the Texas ban on abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected is a “catastrophe to women” in the state.

A legal adviser to Joe Biden’s “transition” team urged Democrats in October to grill Amy Coney Barrett on her Catholic faith.

If Joe Biden becomes president, one of his first moves, left-wing media say, will be to scrap Trump’s pro-life policies.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) said on Wednesday they are investigating reports that the Vatican transferred funds to Australia during the trial of former Vatican treasurer and Archbishop of Melbourne George Pell on sex abuse charges.

Democrat nominee Joe Biden, an avid supporter of abortion rights, closed a campaign speech in Pittsburgh on Monday by citing Saint John Paul II, who urged Christians to “be not afraid.”

Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins criticized Lou Holtz for referring to Democrat nominee Joe Biden as a “Catholic in name only.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) erupted following the conclusion of her Thursday morning press conference, angrily coming back to the podium after a reporter asked if she “hates” President Trump.

Drag queen “Pickle” admitted in Los Angeles the main goal of the Drag Queen Story Hour event is to get children “excited about books that explore progressive themes.”

A Michigan lawyer nominated by President Trump to be a federal judge was grilled by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) Wednesday after he seemingly compared a Catholic family’s beliefs to that of the Ku Klux Klan in a legal brief. Freshman

Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York defended himself against criticism that he rejected his self-proclaimed Catholic faith by signing into law a bill that allows abortion up until birth, asserting, “I was educated in religious schools, and I am a former altar boy.”

Some members of China’s Christian community feel betrayed by the Vatican’s negotiations with Beijing over Chinese bishop appointments. In fact, the South China Morning Post writes of Catholics feeling as “betrayed and abandoned” as Jesus on Good Friday.

Bishop Thomas Tobin of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, is praising a Catholic college student for his “courage” in speaking out about the Church’s teaching on marriage in the face of open hostility and bullying from others at the school.

Anti-Catholic bigotry has been stirred over a Catholic student who was told to remove a Planned Parenthood sticker from her laptop.

The former doctrinal chief of the U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) has written a forceful letter to Pope Francis, criticizing the pontiff’s “intentionally ambiguous” teaching, derision of conservatives and resentfulness of constructive criticism.

Georgetown University in Washington, DC held an official “Respect Life” forum, the first for the Jesuit university that last year saw Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards receive a standing ovation from students.

Senate Democrats are under fire for handing a religious test to a judicial nominee about her Catholic faith and how it allegedly would affect her judgment while serving on the bench.

Pope Francis has appointed a philosopher to his Pontifical Academy for Life who has said the legal limit for abortion should be 18 weeks.

MEDJUGORJE (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA) (AFP) – Pope Francis is dismissive of claims that the Virgin Mary appears daily in Medjugorje, but Danielle Pitau is convinced that her pilgrimage to the small Bosnian town cured her of cancer.

Donald Trump wants Newt Gingrich’s wife Callista Gingrich to be the new ambassador to the Vatican, according to reports from the New York Times and CNN.

Some of the nation’s leading Catholic educators say a crisis in Catholic higher education can only be fully addressed when Catholic laity educate themselves in the teachings of the Church, and colleges and universities that call themselves “Catholic” actually live and teach the faith they claim to profess.

Olympic gold medalist swimmer Katie Ledecky says she looks to her Catholic faith for support as she prepares for competition, even up until immediately before a race, when she prays the “Hail Mary,” which she says especially brings her a sense of calm.