WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order June 20 that halts his administration's family separation policy for families who have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

The executive order seeks to work around a 1997 consent decree that bars the federal government from keeping children in immigration detention — even if they are with their parents — for more than 20 days. The executive order instructs the attorney general to seek federal court permission to...

Led by Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, Catholic bishops in the United States condemned the separation of children from their families at the U.S./Mexico border as the government implements the administration's zero-tolerance policy in immigration.

Cardinal DiNardo called the practice, simply, "immoral." He's the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the leader of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.

Archbishop Robert J. Carlson joined the chorus of dissent on...

An end to Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood in Missouri is one of several ways pressure is being put on the abortion provider in recent weeks.

The measure is part of a $28 billion budget that is expected to be signed by Gov. Mike Parson, and the latest major pro-life measure since the passage of SB5, a comprehensive bill that pro-life groups have said protects the health and safety of women and unborn children and provides protections for pregnancy resource centers.

Long before he became the embodiment of the Cardinal Way, before he even donned a Cardinals uniform, Albert Fred "Red" Schoendienst learned to live in the Catholic Way in Germantown, Ill., about 40 miles east of downtown St. Louis.

Steeped in small-town family values, the Catholic way of living formed the bedrock upon which his ultimate successes — in baseball and beyond — were built.

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