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Abortion

Little Sisters sees ray of hope in Obamacare court battle

WASHINGTON – A statement from government lawyers that health plans could be modified to provide contraceptive care for women under special circumstances may bring an end to a Supreme Court fight over whether organizations that object to providing such services on religious grounds must offer coverage anyway, advocates for religious groups

Catholic

Justices divided over Little Sisters case on contraception

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a new challenge to President Barack Obama's health care law, the Supreme Court appeared deeply and evenly divided Wednesday over the arrangement devised by the administration to spare faith-based groups from having to pay for birth control for women covered under their health plans. Ninety

Catholic

Supreme Court to hear Little Sisters of the Poor

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After months of waiting, the international Catholic charity organization Little Sisters of the Poor will have their day in the U.S. Supreme Court, but the case will go forward without one of the Court's strongest defenders of religious liberty – Justice Antonin Scalia, who died

Faith

Priest still missing after Yemen attack that killed 4 nuns

Aden, Yemen (CNA/EWTN News) — Despite a lack of news and the prospect of difficult negotiations ahead, the Salesians remain hopeful that their priest kidnapped in Yemen last week will be freed. Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil was kidnapped March 4 during an attack on a convent and nursing home run by

children

Nuns dress as prostitutes to save trafficking victims

LONDON – In a less traditional piece of charitable work, more than 1,000 nuns worldwide are swapping their habits for outfits typically worn by prostitutes or laborers. The 1,100 sisters belong to the group Talitha Kum, an 11-year-old network of women fighting human trafficking based in Rome and funded

Massachusetts

Should Catholic nuns be forced to include contraceptives in their health insurance plans?

Should Catholic nuns be forced to include contraceptives in their health insurance plans? The government thinks so and has spent the better part of the past two years trying to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to do just that. For over 175 years, the Little Sisters, an international

Faith

Wisconsin convent says prayer has gone on nonstop since 1878

LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — Flooding, snowstorms, a flu outbreak, even a fire — any of those might have slowed a group of Wisconsin nuns who say none of it has kept their order from praying nonstop for hundreds of thousands of people over the last 137 years. The La Crosse-based Franciscan