After a flurry of court decisions, the Supreme Court reversed a pair of rulings from federal appeals courts that had put death-row inmate Lisa Montgomery's execution on hold, and it denied two other last-minute requests to postpone the execution.
The Dec. 30 closure of St. Joseph’s Hospital’s emergency room was another step in the St. Paul hospital’s transition from an acute care facility to its new focus: mental health and addiction.
A four-part virtual speaker series beginning Jan. 20 aims to bring clarity to several topics of Catholic teaching that are sometimes misunderstood when viewed through the lens of mainstream culture. Over the course of four weeks, the Faith and Culture Series will be addressing the sources of Catholic teaching, sexual morality and the family, the dignity of women, and the priesthood.
Like many across the country, Father William Gurnee and Father Gary Studniewski watched in horror as a rioting mob stormed and ransacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, attempting to disrupt Congress at it certified the Electoral College vote of President-elect Joe Biden.
If great minds had brainstormed how to create a podcast that would jump to No. 1 in Apple’s podcast rankings, they never would have landed on “The Bible in a Year,” joked Jeff Cavins, a Bible scholar and creator of the Great Adventure Bible Timeline. Yet, two weeks into 2021, “Bible in a Year” with Father Mike Schmitz tops the charts — and has since 48 hours after its Jan. 1 launch.
The Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments asked priests to take special anti-COVID-19 precautions this year when distributing ashes on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17, including sprinkling ashes on the top of people's heads rather than using them to make a cross on people's foreheads.
A federal appeals court reaffirmed a hold on an Arkansas law that bans abortions 18 weeks into pregnancy and another banning an abortion from being performed when a fetus is detected to have Down syndrome.