Most Catholics are trying to make the best prudential decision while a lot of people are yelling at them with their opinions.
Challenges of being a Catholic voter
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OSV News
Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary, Respect Life
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Pope praises late king for abdicating rather than signing abortion law
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News
Every crisis, including what the Catholic Church can experience when people no longer care about religion or have distanced themselves from the faith, is meant to wake Christians up from their slumber, make them ask questions and to change, Pope Francis told bishops, priests, religious and pastoral workers.
What does the church teach about abortion?
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
The Catholic Church teaches today what it has for two thousand years: Human life begins at conception and any deliberate participation in the killing of that defenseless life is a mortal sin.
Prayer, thought and peaceful presence will be banned all over the UK
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Respect Life, World News
The English and Welsh bishops have criticized a decision by the British government to put “buffer zones” around all abortion clinics, which could see Christians arrested for offering private prayers.
Catholic death penalty abolition group condemns ‘regressive’ spate of executions
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
Catholic Mobilizing Network, a group that advocates for the abolition of capital punishment in line with Catholic teaching, urged its supporters to speak out against what it called a “regressive” trend of five executions in five states in the span of one week.
Choose Hope Women’s Center saves lives and provides faith
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life
From its humble beginnings in a trailer in the parking lot of St. Ignatius Church in Hickory to its current location in Edgewood, Choose Hope Women’s Center has been offering support and encouragement to women in Harford County for 51 years.
Opponents of Maryland Question 1 note legal, moral concerns in webinar
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Maryland Catholic Conference, News, Respect Life
Changing or repealing constitutional amendments is not impossible, but it is rare and can be difficult, according to a law professor who participated in a Sept. 23 panel about Maryland’s Question 1, the “Right to Reproductive Freedom” amendment.
Swiss bishop warns suicide capsule is ‘dangerous’ as American woman dies in it
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News
Following the death of an American woman in a so-called suicide capsule in Switzerland and the arrest of several people involved in her death, a Swiss bishop said the device is “dangerous” and that people willing to use the capsule should be deferred to palliative care instead.
Harris backs ending filibuster for law to codify a national right to abortion
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OSV News
Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News
In one of her strongest statements on restoring a national right to abortion as it existed under the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling of 1973, Vice President Kamala Harris has said she would support eliminating the filibuster in the U.S. Senate in order to bring back federal protections for a woman’s right to an abortion as they existed under Roe.
Delaware governor vetoes bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide in state
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
Delaware Gov. John Carney Sept. 20 vetoed House Bill 140, turning back legislative efforts to make legal physician-assisted suicide in the state.
A look ahead at the Supreme Court’s fall term
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Respect Life, Supreme Court
When the Supreme Court opens for business again Oct. 7, it will have before it for argument and eventual decision in the term ahead at least three cases directly involving the protection of children and young people.
Mexican priest considered protector of the unborn beatified
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Respect Life, Saints, World News
Father Moisés Lira Serafin has been beatified in a ceremony at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in his native Mexico, where he is beloved as a protector of life from conception and is credited with the miracle of saving an unborn child’s life.
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