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WASHINGTON – During the two days of questions from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett made a clear distinction between policy preferences and legal precedents.

Catholic Extension and the Kino Border Initiative plan to host a virtual prayer event to show support for asylum-seekers looking to start new life in the U.S.

The Catholic voter "bears responsibility for connecting the dots between what our faith teaches and which candidates will best serve the common good," Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City said in a recent column for The Catholic Missourian, the diocesan newspaper.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ recently-released children’s book “Everyone Belongs” has won a gold medal in the Religion/Spirituality category of the 2020 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, the conference announced Oct.15. 

Every week since March, an army of volunteers and Father Evelio Menjivar, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church in the Washington suburb of Landover Hills, Maryland, gather in the parish's parking lot to give away boxes of food to local families in need.