Alabama governor signs IVF bill pro-life groups call ‘ill-considered’ and ‘unjust’ March 7, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Alabama’s Republican Gov. Kay Ivey March 6 signed into law a bill passed by lawmakers to grant legal protection to in vitro fertilization clinics after a ruling by that state’s Supreme Court found that frozen embryos qualify as children under the state law’s wrongful death law.
Church, world need women’s contributions, pope says March 7, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church and the world itself need the gifts and contributions of women, especially in bringing people together and overcoming tensions and violence, Pope Francis wrote.
International Women’s Day: Celebrations in synod season explore hopes March 7, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News International Women’s Day has long been an occasion for women and men connected to the Vatican to gather to discuss the role of women in the church and society.
Maryvale Prep graduate stretches ministry across continents March 7, 2024By Lisa Harlow Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News Colette Zyambo credits a theological studies program offered at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Roland Park with helping open her mind to new ways of thinking.
Bishop near Rome decrees alleged Marian apparitions ‘not supernatural’ March 6, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Since 2016, Gisella Cardia has claimed to be seeing visions of the Virgin Mary in the central Italian town of Trevignano Romano, some 30 miles north of Rome, after bringing a statue of Mary with her from a trip to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, which she said began to shed tears.
Ukrainian Catholic church in Curtis Bay closes March 6, 2024By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church, a historic parish that has served the Ukrainian community for more than a century, celebrated its last Divine Liturgy Feb. 25 with 13 people in attendance.
Supreme Court’s Trump ballot ruling shows agreement amid differences over scope, prof says March 6, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, World News The U.S. Supreme Court ruled March 4 that the 14th Amendment does not permit Colorado to bar former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot, as doing so would be a matter for Congress, not the states.
Catholics call for vigilance as more legislatures advance medically assisted suicide bills March 6, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News While those who support euthanasia and medically assisted suicide emphasize empowerment and control, Catholic opponents argue an undeniably dangerous and dystopian dimension has begun to emerge in the sometimes profit-driven realms of health care insurance and medicine: the cost-benefit ratio of prescribing death for terminal patients versus palliative care.
Pope, still recovering from illness, urges the prideful not to judge March 6, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis urged prideful people to recall one of Jesus’ moral commandments to “never judge.”
As Haiti descends into more chaos, priests vow to stay and minister to the people March 6, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News As the nation of Haiti spirals into further violence and chaos, Catholic clergy there are reported to be remaining in place to serve the populace.
Irish bishops urge immediate end to Israel-Hamas hostilities as children in Gaza face starvation March 6, 2024By Michael Kelly OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News Ireland’s Catholic bishops called on Israel and Hamas to immediately end hostilities in the Holy Land as the war triggered by the Oct. 7 attacks enters its sixth month, and U.N. agencies warn that children are dying of starvation in Gaza.
Major Archbishop Shevchuk: Cross is ‘tree of life’ bearing fruit in besieged Ukraine March 5, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News As Ukraine enters its 11th year of confronting Russian aggression, the cross of Christ is “a tree of life (that) bears its fruit every day” in the besieged nation, said the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
