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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Kate Scanlon |Justin Mclellan |Msgr. Richard Antall |Greg Hardesty
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 18 upheld a Tennessee state law banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender. The question at issue in the case -- United States v. Skrmetti, the Biden administration's challenge to a law in Tennessee restricting gender transition treatments, including puberty blockers for minors -- was whether Tennessee's law, Senate Bill 1, violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Carol Glatz |Gina Christian |Greg Hardesty
Archbishop José H. Gomez has asked all parishes in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to hold a special Mass for peace and unity on Wednesday as immigration-related protests continue in the LA area. “On Wednesday, June 11, 2025, we invite all Catholics and people of good will to pray for our nation, and especially for our immigrant and local community during this tumultuous time,” read an announcement sent to local parishes Tuesday.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Carol Glatz |Gina Christian |Greg Hardesty |Scott Hahn
Every papal diplomat around the world must let people know that the Catholic Church is always on the side of the marginalized and is ready to face everything "out of love," Pope Leo XIV said.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Gina Christian |Greg Hardesty |Scott Hahn
The U.S. bishops urged House and Senate leaders in a June 9 letter to remember that while artificial intelligence presents opportunities, it also presents challenges. The bishops said policy considerations surrounding AI should be governed by an ethical framework.
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3 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Kate Scanlon |Gina Christian |Greg Hardesty |Scott Hahn
The Catholic bishops of Washington state asked a federal court to block a new law requiring clergy to report child abuse or neglect without exceptions for clergy-penitent privilege. The bishops on June 5 asked the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Tacoma to issue a preliminary injunction to block enforcement of the law, scheduled to take effect on July 27.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Maria Wiering |Kurt Jensen |Paul Jeffrey |Greg Hardesty
The heart is where a person can integrate his or her life amid a fragmented world, and the source of a heart's mending and life is "the mystery of the heart of Christ," said Bishop Daniel E.
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Greg Hardesty |Gina Christian
ROME — When it comes to the much-hyped Jubilee Year of 2025, the raw truth of the matter is that many Roman hotel owners, apartment renters, restauranteurs, and cab drivers today find themselves asking some version of the following question: “If a jubilee year fell upon Rome but no one was there to see or hear it, is it actually happening?” The depressing headline of one recent piece on the Italian website “L’agenzia di viaggi” (“Travel Agency”) sums up the verdict in some circles so far:...
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2 months ago | 
angelusnews.com | Greg Hardesty |Gina Christian
On weekends in April, Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Santa Barbara has been going blue. To mark Child Abuse Prevention Month, blue lights illuminate the church’s exterior and blue ribbons decorate trees and doors of the parish, which is located on the east side of the city and has a predominantly Spanish-speaking congregation of some 3,000 families.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
priceschool.usc.edu | Greg Hardesty
Hotly contested mayoral elections grab local headlines and the attention of area voters. But the man sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office is watching too. That’s the gist of a recently published study by two USC Price School of Public Policy scholars that highlights how presidents from both parties strategically use federal funds to assist mayoral candidates who share their political affiliation and aims.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
angelusnews.com | Gina Christian |Fredrick Nzwili |Cindy Wooden |Greg Hardesty
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that aims to expand access to in vitro fertilization, or IVF, a practice contrary to Catholic teaching. A form of artificial reproductive technology, IVF unites a woman's eggs and a man's sperm outside of their respective bodies in a laboratory setting, with one or more embryonic children selected for implantation in the woman's uterus, and the remaining embryonic children either destroyed or frozen indefinitely. Trump's Feb.
