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Maine OKs first religious school for tuition reimbursement
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Maine is ready to fund tuition for some religious school students for the first time since a Supreme Court ruling in June ordered the state to treat those schools the same as other private schools regarding tuition reimbursement.
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'To dust you shall return,' but human composting? California bishops raise objections
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed a bill into law that will allow the composting of human remains -- a bill that the state's Catholic Conference had opposed. The process of human composting -- also known as natural organic reduction (NOR) -- is a relatively new phenomenon in the U.S. and is legal in a handful of other states. When a body is composted, it is placed in a reusable container where microbes and bacteria decompose it into soil over the course of 30--45 days.
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Virginia Gov. Youngkin revokes schools' transgender policies, asserts parental rights
Parental rights and religious freedom are central to Gov. Glenn Youngkin's new statewide policies for public schools, which Virginia's education department released Friday. The updated policies reverse the transgender school mandates put in place by his predecessor, Gov. Ralph Northam, which permitted schools to withhold a student's gender transition from parents for "privacy" reasons.
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Notre Dame head football coach Marcus Freeman joins the Catholic Church
Marcus Freeman, the new head football coach at the University of Notre Dame, has reportedly converted to the Catholic faith, a process he began since his arrival in South Bend, Indiana. "Welcome to our newest Catholic, Marcus Freeman," read an announcement in the Sept. 11 bulletin published by St. Pius X Catholic Church in Granger, Indiana.
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Three bishops on the Camino to Santiago: An exclusive interview with Bishop James Conley
When three American bishops from the United States set out this August to walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain together, they knew to pack only the most necessary gear in their backpacks to keep their load as light as possible for the 200-mile pilgrimage.
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Museum houses Tolkien's treasures
WHEATON, Illinois (RNS) -- You've seen 'The Rings of Power,' but have you heard of this tiny museum housing J.R.R. Tolkien's treasures? It started with an inkling. It was the 1950s. Clyde S. Kilby, then an English professor at Wheaton College, had a feeling about a British author he'd been reading named C.S. Lewis -- that he was "probably going to be famous one day," according to Crystal Downing, co-director of Wheaton's Marion E. Wade Center.
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Pregnant woman with terminal cancer survives, chooses life
Jessica Hanna, a mother of four, was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer when she was 14 weeks pregnant. Several doctors advised her to have an abortion but she declined, choosing life instead. In an interview with EWTN Pro-Life Weekly on Sept. 1, she described how this pregnancy was very different than her previous three saying, "This was God calling me to something so big."
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