Some pro-life leaders have called on Congress to make childbirth free for mothers, while others maintain addressing the financial burden of raising children will make greater impacts on saving lives from abortion.
Marriage & Family Life
Affordable child care key component of post-Roe response, advocates say
Affordable child care must be a core component of a post-Roe response from the Church, advocates at the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering said on Jan. 30.
Personal accompaniment key to Vatican’s expanded vision for marriage formation
First issued in Italian in June with an English translation published in October, “Catechumenal Pathways for Married Life” presents a three-stage approach to preparing men and women for Catholic marriage.
RADIO INTERVIEW: The Holy Family
The Holy Family holds lessons for all of us about how to pray, how to trust in God and live in love.
After vote, House sends Respect for Marriage Act to Biden for signature
By a vote of 258-169, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Respect for Marriage Act Dec. 8 and sent it to President Joe Biden for his signature.
Give joyful witness and lobby hard for families, pope tells Italian groups
Italy’s declining birthrate is alarming, and groups that assist Italian families must do more both in terms of lobbying and witnessing to the joy of family life, Pope Francis said.
Bishop Barron disappointed by Senate passage of Respect for Marriage Act
The bill codifies the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges that found a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
Bishops reiterate church’s ‘firm opposition’ to Respect for Marriage Act
The chairmen of two U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committee’s reiterated the U.S. bishops’ ” firm opposition” to the “misnamed” the Respect for Marriage Act.
Pope: Church’s concern for the family goes beyond focus on couples
The importance of the family for the Catholic Church and for society means that theological reflection on family life and pastoral responses to the joys and problems of families must focus on more than the relationship between a husband and wife, Pope Francis said.
Family under attack by ideologies, pope says
Addressing the Schonstatt Fathers, who were in Rome for their general chapter Sept. 1, the pope urged them to be “bearers of a message of hope in these dark situations that people in every stage of life are going through.”
Protection of children now in sights of Congress, FTC, tech firms
The FTC’s newest commission, Omar Bedoya, said that the protection of children is one of the FTC’s policy areas where there is bipartisanship.
USCCB’s Labor Day statement touts bills to help children, women, families
This year’s annual Labor Day statement from the U.S. bishops touts two bills awaiting action in Congress as being helpful to children, women and families: the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and an expansion of the federal child tax credit.