U.S. & World News

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Catholic and Jewish institutions announced Sept. 7 the discovery of a previously unpublished list of several thousand people, mostly Jews, who were hidden in Catholic convents and monasteries in Rome during the Nazi occupation of the city.

A federal judge ordered Texas to remove controversial floating barriers in the Rio Grande and prohibited the state from adding or reinstalling additional buoys in the river aimed at reducing unauthorized border crossings, marking a legal victory for the Biden administration, which opposed their use.

Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, an influential figure in Democratic politics who also was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary in the Clinton administration, died Sept. 1, according to a statement from the Richardson Center for Global Engagement.

Tens of thousands of Catholics from Poland and abroad are expected to attend the first-ever beatification Sept. 10 of a whole family summarily executed by their country's German occupiers for sheltering Jews in their farmhouse.