Pennsylvania Votes to Keep High Court Majority That Has Upheld Abortion Access
A gavel sits on top of court documents. In Pennsylvania, elective abortion is legal through the 23rd week of pregnancy.
Virginia, New Jersey Races Deliver Victory to Democrats Amid Trump’s Second Term
Win McNameeVirginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate, former Rep. Abigail Spanberger delivers remarks during her election night rally at the Greater Richmond Convention Center on Nov. 4, 2025, in Richmond, Virginia. In New Jersey, meanwhile, Democrat Mikie…
Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani Wins New York City Mayoral Race
Alexi J. RosenfeldDemocratic Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani speaks to members of the media during a press conference after voting on Nov. 4, 2025. | Credit: Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images Mamdani, a 34-year-old member of the New…
Newman and the New Ultramontanism
Daniel Ibanez Tapestry of Saint John Henry Newman hangs in Vatican Square Nov. 1, 2025, on the day Pope Leo XIV declared the saint a doctor of the church. COMMENTARY: The newest doctor of the…
Did You Know That America Traces Its Name to a Medieval Hungarian Saint?
Wikimedia Commons Left: Detail of St. Emeric from a 1478 painting in the Church of Spišská Kapitula, Slovakia. Right: Charles Willson Peale, “Amerigo Vespucci,” 1816, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. How a Catholic explorer, a…
Venice revives a quarter-mile floating bridge to island cemetery for All Souls’ Day mourners
VENICE, Italy — Venice’s San Michele island is the final resting place of American poet Ezra Pound, Russian composer Igor Stravinsky and many Venetians known only to their loved ones. The city of Venice this year…
Faith leaders condemn a Pennsylvania Halloween parade float with an Auschwitz sign
Jewish and Catholic faith leaders condemned a Halloween parade float that carried a replica of the gate to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz as the designer behind it apologized, saying he made it “with…
Vatican nixes use of ‘Co-Redemptrix,’ ‘Mediatrix’ as titles for Mary
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, prays before an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Child during the rosary vigil for Pope Francis at the Vatican…
Vatican Nixes Use of ‘Co-Redemptrix,’ ‘Mediatrix’ As Titles for Mary
Daniel Ibáñez/CNACardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, prays before an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Child during the rosary vigil for Pope Francis at the…
S.F. Archbishop Says State Officials Never Contacted Him About Removal of St. Junípero Serra Statue
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone joins Vigil participants on July 1, 2020, at the St. Junípero Serra Statue along I-280 in California. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s account flatly contradicts the California Department of Transport’s narrative; no…