Catholic death penalty abolition group condemns ‘regressive’ spate of executions September 27, 2024By Kate Scanlon 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 September 27, 2024By Katie V. Jones 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 September 27, 2024By Christopher Gunty 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 September 25, 2024By OSV News 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 September 25, 2024By Kurt Jensen 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 September 23, 2024By Joseph P. Owens 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 September 23, 2024By Russell Shaw 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 September 19, 2024By David Agren 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.
Bill to establish a right to IVF fails in Senate September 18, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News A bill that aimed to establish a right to in vitro fertilization failed on a procedural vote in the U.S. Senate Sept. 17.
Post-Dobbs, Catholic maternity homes provide critical support for moms in need September 16, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Heartbeat International — a Christian interdenominational, pro-life organization that supports the world’s largest network of crisis pregnancy centers — estimates there are over 400 maternity homes in the U.S., an 8 percent increase since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and other related abortion precedent in 2022.
Both U.S. presidential candidates espouse anti-life views, pope says September 13, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News Asked what a U.S. Catholic given a choice between voting for a person who supports abortion or one who supports closing borders and deporting migrants, Pope Francis said one must choose “the lesser evil.”
In health care, patients must be seen ‘as the image of Christ,’ says physician September 13, 2024By Jean Gonzalez OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News The event, which gathered Catholic physicians and their families, followed the theme “Imago Dei: Made in His Image, Male and Female He Created Them.”
