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Respect Life

‘We are better than this,’ deacon says before Johnson’s execution

Carol Zimmermann January 16, 2021
By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News

Johnson, 52, was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 11:34 p.m. EST Jan. 14 at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. His was the 12th federal execution since last summer.

Rome university reverses decision to honor priest’s pro-life work

Cindy Wooden January 14, 2021
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News

For a variety of reasons, “especially in relation to the political situation” in the United States, the Legionaries of Christ university in Rome will not honor Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, said the head of the university’s bioethics faculty.

Supreme Court says abortion drugs must be obtained in person, not by mail

Carol Zimmermann January 13, 2021
By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News

The Supreme Court Jan. 12 reinstated a federal requirement that women who are seeking abortion-inducing drugs must do so in person, not by mail, as a federal judge had allowed last year due to the pandemic and the high court had let stand.

Lisa Montgomery put to death after Supreme Court reversal

Carol Zimmermann January 13, 2021
By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News

After a flurry of court decisions, the Supreme Court reversed a pair of rulings from federal appeals courts that had put death-row inmate Lisa Montgomery’s execution on hold, and it denied two other last-minute requests to postpone the execution.

‘Village’ lifts Columbia Pregnancy Center

Paul McMullen January 7, 2021
By Paul McMullen
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life, Uncategorized

The coronavirus pandemic should have played havoc with the Columbia Pregnancy Center, but its benefactors had other ideas.

National Prayer Vigil for Life will be virtual this year

Catholic News Service January 6, 2021
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Catholics across the country are instead being are encouraged to take part in a nationwide prayer vigil from Jan. 28 through Jan. 29, marking the 48th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions legalizing abortion.

Catholic advocates against death penalty urge clemency for woman on federal death row

Carol Zimmermann December 30, 2020
By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

The execution date of Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, is currently undecided. In late December a federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled her execution while there had already been a stay in effect, granted because one of her attorneys tested positive for the coronavirus.

Region’s bishops urge Trump to stop planned federal execution of Maryland man

Tim Swift December 22, 2020
By Tim Swift
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life

The prelates of the Maryland Catholic Conference have written to President Donald Trump, urging him to not move forward with the planned federal execution of a Maryland man next month.

Death penalty hits historic low in U.S. ‘despite federal execution spree,’ says report

Carol Zimmermann December 17, 2020
By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

A new report Dec. 16 by the Death Penalty Information Center said the use of capital punishment reached a historic low this year in the United States even with the return of federal executions by the Trump administration.

Maryland bishops endorse use of Pfizer, Moderna COVID vaccines

Tim Swift December 16, 2020
By Tim Swift
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life

The Maryland Catholic Conference – which represents bishops serving the archdioceses of Baltimore and Washington as well as the diocese of Wilmington, Del. – is recommending that the faithful receive COVID-19 vaccines developed by U.S. pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna when available.

Bishops: Getting COVID-19 vaccine is ‘act of charity,’ supports the common good

Julie Asher December 14, 2020
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

The “gravity” of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and “the lack of availability of alternative vaccines,” are “sufficiently serious” reasons to accept the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, the chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ doctrine and pro-life committees said Dec. 14.

Sister Prejean decries federal execution on Human Rights Day

Catholic News Service December 12, 2020
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News

Calling the Dec. 10 federal execution of Brandon Bernard an injustice carried out by the country’s criminal justice system, Sister Helen Prejean urged Americans to speak up to stop a series of upcoming executions in the final weeks of the Trump administration.

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