For over 125 years, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, New York, have provided comfort and nursing care to impoverished patients who suffer from incurable cancer for free. Now, they face fines, loss of licensing, and even jail time if they fail to comply with the...
Missouri State Representative Ken Waller passed away on Saturday at the age of 63. “Claudia and I are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Representative Ken Waller. The people of the 114th District and all of Missouri have lost a dedicated public servant and a...
Christopher “Kit” Bond, a former Missouri governor and U.S. Senator, died Tuesday at 86. Bond served two terms as Missouri governor (1973 to 1977 and 1981 to 1985) and served in the U.S. Senate from 1987 to 2011. While in the U.S. Senate, he worked on issues such as...
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Doctrine has issued a statement providing principles for evaluating some newer methods and technologies for the disposition of the bodies of the deceased. In their statement, the doctrine committee affirms...