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Julie Asher

Catholic News Service is a leading agency for religious news. Its mission is to report fully, fairly and freely on the involvement of the church in the world today.

Coakley: Catholic response to gender dysphoria must ‘affirm one’s God-given sex,’ also recognize those struggling with it

May 4, 2023
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News

A Catholic response to those experiencing gender dysphoria “must both affirm God-given sex and recognize the struggle of the person in front of us,” Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City said in a new pastoral letter.

Medically changing person’s sex characteristics to those of opposite sex ‘not morally justified,’ say bishops

March 21, 2023
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Health Care, News, World News

Surgical, chemical or other interventions that aim “to exchange” a person’s “sex characteristics” for those of the opposite sex “are not morally justified,” said the U.S. bishops’ doctrine committee in a statement released March 20.

Catholics must reject ‘sectarian partisan lens’ and ‘live the truth’ of their faith, says former congressman

March 13, 2023
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News

Despite being labeled a Democratic “heretic” by the media for his pro-life stand and his support for traditional marriage, former Congressman Dan Lipinski told a Washington conference he never backed down from “what I knew was true.”

Saying rosary as family seen as one way to fulfill Lenten pillar of prayer

March 4, 2023
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News

Tom Lyman, director of Family Rosary, hopes that especially during Lent — which calls Catholics to commit more time to the Lord in prayer — families will pray the rosary together and take part in the ministry’s “At the Foot of the Cross” Lenten campaign.

Indianapolis priest named director of USCCB’s Institute on the Catechism

February 27, 2023
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Evangelization, Feature, News, World News

The recently formed Institute on the Catechism will carry out the U.S. bishops’ vision of the importance of “connecting evangelization and catechesis,” according to Father Daniel J. Mahan, an Indianapolis archdiocesan priest just named as the institute’s director.

Social ministry ‘fundamentally a work of faith,’ cardinal says

February 1, 2023
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington thanked attendees at the 2023 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering for “the service and sacrifices” they make to “preach the Gospel and share Catholic teaching in these discordant times.”

First National Prayer Vigil for Life post-Roe calls Catholics to bring God’s love into ’empty spaces’

January 20, 2023
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

The pro-life movement has “much to celebrate” because Roe v. Wade “is no more,” said Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, Va., in his homily Jan. 19 for the National Prayer Vigil for Life’s opening Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.

West Coast rallies, marches ‘reinvigorate’ people about pro-life issues

January 20, 2023
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

This year for the first time the Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco takes place “in a country where the so-called right to kill an unborn child is no longer the law of the land,” Eva Muntean, co-chair of the walk, told OSV News.

Aquila: Media claim church teaching helped prompt gay bar shooting is ‘lie’

December 28, 2022
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, Journalism, News, World News

Denver Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila called it irresponsible and a “flat out lie” for The Denver Post daily newspaper and some other local media to scapegoat Catholic teaching on human sexuality as a reason for hatred against transgender people and the wider LGBTQ community that led to a mass shooting at a Colorado gay bar.

Bible is ‘key to evangelization’ and soul of theology, says Bishop Barron

December 25, 2022
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Bible, Books, Feature, News, World News

Bishop Robert E. Barron spoke to Catholic News Service about the Word on Fire Catholic Ministries’ Bible project, which will be a seven-volume series when completed.

It’s not news that incivility is on the rise, but what do we do about it?

December 23, 2022
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News

Georgetown professor Christine Porath has been studying incivility, particularly in the workplace, for a good 20 years.

Priests for Life head says Vatican didn’t tell him directly he was laicized

December 19, 2022
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News

– In a live morning broadcast on Twitter Dec. 18, Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, said he was not told directly by the Vatican that he has been laicized.

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