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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the new office is meant to give chaplains a direct line to the secretary, to bypass red tape from the secular bureaucracy.

Two neighbors objected to the shrine and filed suit. Lawyers for the Missionaries of St. John the Baptist say federal religious liberty protections guarantee their right to construct the shrine.

Karin Öberg holds the Thomas Dudley Cabot Chair in the Natural Sciences at Harvard University and directs the Öberg Astrochemistry Laboratory at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

The Wisconsin-based Generac Power Systems allegedly failed to present a reasonable accommodation to a religious employee, the federal government said.

Catholic Mobilizing Network offered prayers for both condemned murderer Christa Pike and the family of her victim.

U.S. senators filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court on behalf of home-schooling families, and more in this week’s roundup of Catholic education news.

The Catholic Church in the U.S. honors Respect Life Month in October under the theme “Mary, Mother of Life.”

Suspended federal funding made the refugee‑resettlement program grants financially unsustainable and forced staff cuts, the U.S. bishops’ financial report said.

A “culture of reverence” in decades past helped priests avoid scrutiny for abuse, the lengthy report found.

Church leaders in New York and Illinois are pushing back against various states’ recently passed laws allowing doctors to help kill their patients.