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Senators introduce bill requiring states to report abortion figures

Oct 4, 2019

By Matt Hadro

The Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of 2019 would make certain Medicaid family planning funds to states... Read more

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Senate votes to fund UN population fund and confirm Scalia as Labor Secretary

Sep 26, 2019

By Matt Hadro

The Senate on Thursday passed a temporary extension of government funding ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline, but with an... Read more

Trump nominee for Attorney General William Barr during confirmation hearings ahead of his first term in the role in 1991.

AG Nominee Barr clears committee ahead of final Senate vote

Feb 7, 2019

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-10 along party lines to advance attorney general nominee William Barr to the full Senate... Read more

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Farm Bill to pass without expanded SNAP work requirements

Nov 30, 2018

By JD Flynn

Congress looks set to pass a compromise version of the Farm Bill, which would reauthorize billions in government funds for... Read more

The city of Taiz in southern Yemen. Yemen / Taiz City. 2018-11-02

Senate moves to end U.S. support of Yemeni conflict

Nov 29, 2018

The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday in favor of a procedural motion to advance a resolution that could end U.S. involvement... Read more

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Archbishop Boris Godziak, Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archiparagi of Philadelphia.

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The relics of St. Thomas Aquinas are kept in Toulouse, France, where the Dominican order was founded.

Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas to visit Washington, DC, on international tour

Farm workers.

Catholic Campaign for Human Development spent $11.4 million over its budget

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Cardinal Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi during an interview with CNA in Rome on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024.

Archbishop of Tokyo: An aging society like Japan’s will not be able to survive

President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, photographed here with Kirk Adams and First Lady Jill Biden, in a photo posted to his X account, Nov. 20, 2024.

Biden awards Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood leader Cecile Richards

Missouri’s bishops are urging the state to forgo executing a Christopher Collings, who was convicted of the 2007 abduction, rape, torture and murder of a 9-year-old girl. Collings is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 3, 2024.

Missouri bishops urge state to refrain from executing convicted child-killer next month

The Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation awards the Ratzinger Prize to Notre Dame theologian Cyril O’Regan and Japanese sculptor Etsurō Sotoo at in a ceremony at the Vatican on Nov. 22, 204.

Prestigious Ratzinger Prize awarded to Notre Dame theologian, Japanese sculptor at Vatican

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Data show abortions dropped by nearly 40% in Iowa after six-week ban

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