On April 29, the Minnesota House of Representatives voted to advance HF3567, a bill that would establish a legal framework for commercial surrogacy agreements in our state. This legislation should stir grave concerns among Catholics and our belief in the protection and promotion human dignity and of human life from conception to natural death.

Conversations on the Mass and particularly the Eucharist — in other words, “the preeminent experience of Church” and “the preeminent sacrament of faith,” said Father John Paul Erickson — have been at the forefront of Liturgical Commission meetings.

"We're in the Nazi killing business, and cousin, business is a-boomin'" blithely declares Brad Pitt's character, U.S. Army officer Lt. Aldo Raine, in the 2009 film "Inglourious Basterds." The same might be said by the core cast of the fact-based World War II action comedy "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" (Lionsgate).

Behind "We Grown Now" (Sony Pictures Classics), a drama influenced by real-life events, looms the 1992 murder of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green public housing project. The crime had far-reaching consequences.

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As artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent, it is worth reflecting on the words of Pope Francis in his message for World Communications Day. The pope addressed how much this new intelligence can offer to humanity, but also considered its downsides.

Pope Francis received assurances from Jordan's King Abdullah II that Christian and Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem will be protected amid the Israel-Hamas war.

Jockey Keith Asmussen calls on his Catholic faith daily as he competes in the high-stakes world of horse racing, and the sport's stage gets no bigger than the one he will be on May 4, when he rides in his first Kentucky Derby.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced new regulations April 26 that restore Obama-era protections for patients who identify as transgender that the Trump administration rolled back in 2020. The new rule follows another controversial rule adding gender identity to Title IX protections.

A law prohibiting elective abortions after six weeks of pregnancy went into effect May 1 in Florida, as that state also faces a ballot measure on abortion in November.