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1 day ago | catholicvote.org | Mary Stroka

The California Department of Education (CDE) and the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) violated Title IX by discriminating against women and girls, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found through an investigation, it announced June 25. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Feb. 5 regarding Title IX.

2 days ago | catholicvote.org | Mary Stroka

Bishops must give witness to hope through their words and deeds, Pope Leo XIV said in an address he made to them June 25 at Saint Peter’s Basilica for the Jubilee of Bishops. Pope Leo first praised the bishops for making a pilgrimage to Rome, noting that while each faces urgent demands of their ministry, they, too, are sheep in the Lord’s flock, so they too must experience spiritual renewal.

5 days ago | catholicvote.org | Mary Stroka

President Donald Trump ordered the US military’s precision strike against three nuclear facilities in Iran “in order to destroy or degrade Iran’s nuclear program,” not target Iranian troops or Iranian people, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told reporters June 22 in a press conference at the Pentagon. “This mission was not and has not been about regime change,” Hegseth said, according to the transcript posted on the U.S. Department of Defense’s website.

6 days ago | catholicvote.org | Mary Stroka

In the Angelus address Pope Leo XIV made June 22, on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Corpus Christi, the Pontiff reflected on both the need for peace in the Middle East and the significance of the miracle of the loaves and fishes. “Alarming news continues to emerge from the Middle East, especially from Iran,” the Pontiff said.

6 days ago | catholicvote.org | Mary Stroka

President Donald Trump, who announced previously in the evening that the US had struck three nuclear sites in Iran, said in an address the night of June 21 that if there is no peace, “there will be tragedy for Iran, far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days.” As CatholicVote previously reported, Trump said in a post on Truth Social at 7:50 p.m. ET that the US had completed “our very successful attack” on “the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and...