Florida Catholic bishops urge Gov. DeSantis to stay two executions December 5, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Saying it is possible both to uphold justice and to exercise mercy, Florida’s Catholic bishops have urged Gov. Ron DeSantis to stay executions scheduled for Dec. 9 and Dec. 18.
New coalition aims to end capital punishment as executions increase but public support wanes December 3, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News Despite an uptick in executions in the U.S. in 2025, opponents of the death penalty lauded decreases in new death sentences and waning public support for the practice during comments at a Dec. 3 press event announcing a new coalition called the U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty.
Supreme Court weighs appeal from New Jersey faith-based pregnancy centers December 2, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court on Dec. 2 heard oral arguments in an appeal from a group of faith-based pregnancy centers in New Jersey challenging an investigation by that state’s attorney general alleging they misled people about their services and seeking information about their donors.
Record numbers of women are visiting pregnancy centers, study shows December 1, 2025By Zoey Maraist Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News In 2024, pregnancy centers saw more new clients, provided more medical care and distributed more material goods than ever before, according to a new report from the Charlotte Lozier Institute.
Generating life requires having hope in life’s meaning, pope said November 26, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News A “sickness” that is widespread in the world is not believing in the meaning and beauty of life, and, consequently, lacking the courage to live and to generate life, Pope Leo XIV said.
175 lawmakers demand ‘robust’ investigation on risks of abortion pill November 26, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News Congressional Republicans are demanding a “robust” investigation of federal safety standards and health risks connected to mifepristone, a pill commonly, but not exclusively, used for early abortion.
Vatican says cause can move forward for Massachusetts pro-life activist, wife, mother November 23, 2025By Tanya Connor The Catholic Free Press Filed Under: News, Respect Life, Saints, World News This fall the Vatican paved the way for the Worcester Diocese to begin the cause for the potential canonization of a local Catholic — Ruth V. K. Pakaluk.
Mercy Medical Center program combats preterm deliveries November 19, 2025By Yvonne Wenger Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, Local News, News, Respect Life Mercy’s Centering Pregnancy program opened at its downtown Baltimore campus about three years ago to combine the health care, interactive learning and community building needed to combat low birth weight and pre-term delivery for women at risk, especially Black moms in underserved areas.
Bishops’ new pro-life chair: Project Rachel ministries ‘key to our pro-life efforts’ November 18, 2025By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, Respect Life, World News During the U.S. bishops’ annual fall meeting in Baltimore, Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, chair of the bishops’ pro-life committee, spoke with OSV News about its priorities and the importance of offering “healing and the tender mercy of God” to those hurt by abortion.
Catholics for Choice displays controversial billboard in Baltimore November 13, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life “It’s highly offensive and disrespectful,” said Davis, a parishioner of St. Clement Mary Hofbauer in Rosedale, a worship site of St. Michael the Archangel in Overlea. “It’s totally misleading.”
Archbishop Sample on ICE activity: Human dignity comes from God, not government November 10, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Respect Life, World News Human dignity comes “not from government, but from our loving God,” Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland, Oregon, declared in a Nov. 8 statement regarding recent immigration enforcement activity in that state.
New director of Office of Life, Justice and Peace hopes to promote dignity of all November 10, 2025By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life Collin Kourtz, a 34-year-old Virginia native who earned an engineering degree from Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, took on his new role this fall in the archdiocese’s Institute for Evangelization, succeeding Erin Younkins.
