The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington seen on April 5, 2017. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

What can the U.S. learn from how other countries balance church and state?

by Ellen K. Boegel May 9, 2017

U.S. educational history is rife with examples of varying levels of government involvement with religious education in public schools.

Dispatches, Politics & Society

Will Hawaii prove a sanctuary for undocumented people?

by Jim McDermott May 5, 2017

“So far we do not know of anybody on Oahu that has been visited by ICE or picked up.”

Girl Scout Julia Ocasio, 13, and Boy Scout Thomas Perotta, 10, use collection baskets during a Scout Sunday Mass on Feb. 7 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in the Windsor Terrace neighborhood of the New York borough of Brooklyn. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Faith, News

Girl Scouts no longer “compatible” with Gospel, Archdiocese of Kansas City says

by Associated Press May 2, 2017

The Archdiocese of Kansas City said that Girl Scouts is “no longer a compatible partner in helping us form young women with the virtues and values of the Gospel.”

U.S. President Donald Trump talks to journalists in the Oval Office at the White House on March 24 after the American Health Care Act was pulled before a vote. (CNS photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)

In All Things, Politics & Society

Trump and the U.S. Catholic Church: The First 100 Days

by Kevin Clarke April 28, 2017

Predictably Mr. Trump has also clashed with the Catholic Church and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on many of the policies he has promoted during his first 100 days.

News, Politics & Society

Updated: House-passed Trumpcare bill deplored by Catholic Health Association

by Kevin Clarke April 27, 2017

Catholic healthcare leaders continue to denounce GOP efforts to “reform and repeal” the Affordable Care Act.

Edward Lally (center) is joined by his schola, Sarah Coffman, Katherine Keberlein, Ngaire Bull and Sarah Beatty, at St. Edward's Catholic Church in Chicago on April 8, 2017. Photo courtesy of Sarah Beatty.

Dispatches, Faith

For one Chicago parish, Gregorian Chant resonates

by Judith Valente April 25, 2017

With chant “you’re expressing something in pure melody.”

Judge John T. Noonan Jr. gives the commencement address in 2009 at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Noonan, a member of the U.S Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit for 31 years, died April 17 at age 90. (CNS photo/Matt Cashore, University of Notre Dame)

News, Politics & Society

Judge John Noonan remembered for recognizing common humanity of all people

by Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service April 21, 2017

Noonan was a prolific writer, authoring books on topics of concern to the church such as contraception, abortion and religious freedom, as well as legal subjects.

Politics & Society, Your Take

Who has the most influential moral voice in the United States today? Our readers told us.

by Our readers April 20, 2017

“People listen to those who are talking the talk and walking the walk. You become influential when you relentlessly and unwaveringly pursue what’s right.”

Sandra Green Thomas, representing the descendants of 272 sold into slavery in 1838, speaks at Georgetown University's Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition and Hope.

Dispatches, Politics & Society

Georgetown liturgy does penance for sale of 272 enslaved people in 1838

by Kevin Clarke and Teresa Donnellan April 18, 2017

Georgetown University and the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States began a process of penance and restitution, acknowledging an institutional sin in 1838 which preserved the university but condemned 272 to slavery in Louisiana.