Life News

Governor, NAACP push death penalty repeal in Maryland
Jan 15 2013
Statistics show the death penalty doesn't deter violent crime, involves racial bias and is a poor investment of criminal justice funding.

Curley men among students attending March for Life
Jan 09 2013
The Baltimore all-male high school hopes to send 80 students to the march on the National Mall Jan. 25.

40 years after Roe v. Wade, pro-life movement strengthens its resolve
Jan 06 2013
Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortions, the pro-life movement hasn’t stepped back in its resolve.

Recent Loyola Blakefield grad gives the gift of life to 8-year-old stranger
Nov 29 2012
Austin Luera had just begun his first semester at the University of South Carolina when the 18-year-old Loyola Blakefield graduate learned that his bone marrow was a match for an 8-year-old boy battling leukemia.

March for Life board of directors elects successor to late Nellie Gray
Nov 20 2012
Jeanne Monahan is the new full-time president of the March for Life Education & Defense Fund.

Love and loss: IND president finds love again
Jul 25 2012
One year and three weeks after her husband died, Mary Funke became acutely aware that she was alone during a Halloween party.

Archbishop Lori praises court for upholding free speech for pregnancy centers
Jun 27 2012
Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore called the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals June 27 decision to uphold a lower court’s ruling affirming a Baltimore City pregnancy center’s right to free speech “a major victory for the First Amendment and for those people who seek to live their lives and faith according to it.”

Connecticut governor signs death penalty repeal bill backed by church
Apr 26 2012
HARTFORD, Conn. - In what he called “a moment of sober reflection, not celebration,” Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed into law a bill outlawing the use of capital punishment in the state.

HHS saying 'To hell with you,' bishop says
Jan 27 2012
WASHINGTON (CNS) - A week after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told individuals and institutions who oppose contraception "to hell with you," as one bishop put it, members of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy were mobilizing their followers to fight.

Silence is key ingredient to meaningful communication, pope says
Jan 24 2012
VATICAN CITY – Amid the deluge of information and nonstop chatter in today’s media, the church needs to help people find safe havens of silence, Pope Benedict XVI said.

T-shirts, balloons and banners proclaim pro-life crowd’s convictions
Jan 24 2012
WASHINGTON – Mark Hosbein stood on the corner of a busy Washington intersection under the steady rain Jan. 23 with a small duffle bag at his feet and a simple message for passers-by: “Please consider spiritually adopting an unborn baby who is in danger of abortion.”

Life, liberty at ‘core of our national character,’ Boehner tells rally
Jan 24 2012
WASHINGTON – Americans “as a people are pro-life” because life and liberty “are intertwined and form the core of our national character,” House Speaker John Boehner told the crowd gathered on the National Mall Jan. 23 for the 39th annual March for Life.

Priest who survived cancer takes on challenge of Mount Kilimanjaro
Jan 24 2012
DES MOINES, Iowa – A pastor from the Des Moines Diocese has experienced a once-in-a-lifetime adventure with the hope that it will bring others to God.

Altoona-Johnstown bishop eulogizes Paterno as ‘good Catholic,’ friend
Jan 23 2012
ALTOONA, Pa. – Although Joe Paterno will be remembered as “a legend throughout our region and throughout our country,” Bishop Mark L. Bartchak said the iconic football coach will be best remembered in the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown as “a good Catholic, a family man and a friend to many.”

Cardinal links religious liberty fight with abortion struggle
Jan 23 2012
WASHINGTON – Participants at the annual March for Life were urged in advance of the march not to let themselves be compromised in their beliefs as the federal government pursues regulations that Catholic leaders say constitute an attack on conscience and religious liberty.