Loyola University Maryland has been awarded a $2 million, six-year grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to establish the Empowering STEM Scholars for Success (Empowered Scholars) program. 

As part of October’s Respect Life Month, the American Life League’s Culture of Life Studies Program, based in Fredericksburg, Va., plans to hold its 2025 Pro-Life Essay Contest.

Thirty years after a landmark international document safeguarding women’s dignity, much remains to be done to ensure the well-being of women and girls worldwide, said a top Vatican diplomat.

In an interview Sept. 24 with OSV News, Bishop Paprocki said that regardless of Sen. Durbin’s record on other issues, his public position supporting policies to protect legal abortion disqualifies him from receiving any awards, per policies of both the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Archdiocese of Chicago itself.

Five U.S. bishops have now spoken out against the decision of Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich and the Archdiocese of Chicago to present Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., a “Lifetime Achievement Award” for his work on immigration issues in November due to the senator’s longstanding public position on abortion.