Protecting the vulnerable and strengthening the family
WASHINGTON — The last government shutdown — well, threatened shutdown, anyway — seems so long ago. The nine-hour “funding lapse” of Feb. 9, like the three-day shutdown that began Jan. 20, hinged on how Congress was going to address the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that President Donald Trump said he would end March…
WASHINGTON — In a sea of printed signs and huge student groups in colorful toboggan caps at the March for Life rally, Ed York was an outlier. He’d made the two-hour drive to the National Mall Jan. 19 from his home in Martinsburg, West Virginia, not with a group on a bus pilgrimage, but only…
Prayer sought as case challenging Michigan’s constitutional amendment wraps up Detroit — The Feb. 25 opening of the ongoing DeBoer v. Snyder trial, in which the plaintiffs are seeking to legalize same-sex marriage by overturning the Michigan Marriage Amendment defining civil marriage as between one man and one woman in this state, is just the…
Every day through 10 weeks of novenas, doctors ‘said they couldn’t believe’ their survival Livonia — Thomas and Alison Fuller knew that the only way they would make it through the pregnancy was by trusting God’s plan, no matter what happened. “Trusting in the Lord is the one thing you can do in any situation,” said…
Troy — Saying he admires “very, very much” the work of the volunteers and the sacrifice of mothers who are part of Mary’s Mantle, Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron baptized six children Feb. 8 at St. Anastasia Parish, Troy. The children baptized — five infants and one 7-year-old boy — were those whose mothers had been…
Detroit — Whether you are an international expert on Catholic public policy or a father whose unborn child’s diagnosis confirms your worst fears, the Church’s message of human dignity applies to your particular calling. Chad Judice, a teacher at St. Thomas More High School in Lafayette, La., and his wife, Ashley, received a prenatal diagnosis…
