Legal abortions most likely increased in the United States in the first six months of 2023 compared with 2020, according to a New York Times analysis of data from the Guttmacher Institute, which opposes abortion restrictions.
Autumn Marlow, 17, never even boarded a plane before she took her place in the pilot's seat of a four-seat, single-engine Cessna 172 and flew over the Chesapeake Bay.
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York told OSV News the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, which will be marked with solemn ceremonies across the U.S., should be observed with memories of lives lost and impacted by the day's events. But he added it also is worth remembering the spirit of the following day, Sept. 12, 2001, when Americans came together as a nation.
On a September morning 22 years ago, now-Deacon Paul Carris of the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, settled into his cubicle in a New York skyscraper -- the iconic World Trade Center 1, also known as the North Tower.
When California in 2021 relaxed its physician-assisted death rules -- easing access to the lethal means for residents to take their own lives -- several lawmakers behind the change cited a desire to aid the terminally ill, invoking a sort of legislative altruism.
God chooses certain people not to exclude others, but always to include everyone by way of the missionary and social outreach of his disciples, Pope Francis said.
Catholic and Jewish institutions announced Sept. 7 the discovery of a previously unpublished list of several thousand people, mostly Jews, who were hidden in Catholic convents and monasteries in Rome during the Nazi occupation of the city.