U.S. bishops urge prayer as high court poised to hear cases on pill used in abortion March 18, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News As the Supreme Court prepares to take up two cases on access to pills commonly used for early abortions, U.S. Catholic bishops have issued a nationwide call to prayer to end abortion and protect women and unborn children.
Pro-life group deplores Harris’ historic visit to Planned Parenthood abortion clinic March 15, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Vice President Kamala Harris on March 14 toured a Minnesota abortion clinic, marking the first time that a president or vice president has done so, according to Harris’ office.
Body of preterm baby found in Virginia pond prompts prayers, resource reminders March 14, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, Va., expressed “great sorrow” after the body of an unborn baby was found in a pond in Leesburg, Virginia, on March 11. He called on the faithful to pray for everyone involved in the incident, offered burial services and also drew attention to the resources the diocese offers to women in crisis pregnancies.
People touched by adoption look to St. Joseph in national novena March 14, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Saints, World News The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is offering a March 10-18 novena to the foster father of Jesus, ahead of the saint’s March 19 feast day.
Marchers at Maryland March for Life call for defeat of constitutional amendment March 13, 2024By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Maryland General Assembly, News, Respect Life Many of the pro-life supporters who attended the 45th annual Maryland March for Life in Annapolis March 11 know they are in for a difficult fight come November.
Sister of murdered French priest tells story of forgiveness, friendship with killer’s mother March 9, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Spending most of her life in Armentières, a northern small French town bordering Belgium, Roseline Hamel, 84, would never have expected it to take such a dramatic turn when her brother, Jacques, 86, was murdered while celebrating Mass at his little church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in France’s Normandy region on July 26, 2016.
In boisterous State of the Union, Biden calls for Ukraine aid, abortion law and immigration reforms March 8, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Crisis in Ukraine, Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News In his third State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Biden said “this is no ordinary moment” in U.S. history.
Department of Veterans Affairs finalizes abortion policy deplored by U.S. military archbishop March 8, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs finalized March 6 its interim policy permitting abortion at VA hospitals and clinics when there is risk to the mother’s life or in cases of rape or incest.
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.
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.
French bishops call for fasting, prayer as abortion is enshrined in country’s constitution March 5, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News After several months of legislative process, the French Congress, a special body composed of both chambers of parliament, revised the country’s 1958 constitution to enshrine women’s “guaranteed freedom” to abort in Article 34, making France the first country in the world to explicitly include the right to abortion in its constitution.
Former Planned Parenthood leader shares conversion story at 40 Days for Life event March 5, 2024By Sharon Crews Hare Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life Ramona Trevino shared her story during five recent prayer vigils in Maryland sponsored by 40 Days for Life.