Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
Catholic organizations announced they will implement expanded parental leave policies or provide other resources as a means of demonstrating their commitment to building a culture of life.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will allow retail pharmacies to offer abortion pills in the United States for the first time, the agency announced Jan. 3, prompting criticism from Catholic and pro-life groups.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
Even though 2022 was another year with fewer than 30 executions, more than half of those were in just two states, Oklahoma and Texas.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
When the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution Dec. 15 to establish a worldwide “moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty,” the United States continued its practice of voting against it.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News
– In a live morning broadcast on Twitter Dec. 18, Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, said he was not told directly by the Vatican that he has been laicized.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News
Although they were pleased with the Dobbs outcome, Catholic leaders acknowledged then and months later that the decision didn’t lessen the urgency for the church in its pro-life advocacy efforts.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
The Supreme Court of Georgia Nov. 23 reinstated a law that bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is about six weeks into a pregnancy.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News
In the third week of November, three executions by lethal injection took place in the U.S. in just two days and a fourth execution was called off after failed attempts happened close to the expiration of the prisoner’s death warrant.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News
The inaugural Symposium for the Advancement of Catholic Health Care on Nov. 12 didn’t try to advance policy proposals, but it had a single message: Keep fighting.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2022
The Catholic Church’s teaching on the respect for life is credible when it helps expectant mothers with a host of services based in love, Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori said Nov. 15 as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops met for its annual fall meeting in Baltimore.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2022, World News
The incoming president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said he is willing to meet with public officials, including President Joe Biden, to discuss public policy issues of concern to the church.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2022
In a year when abortion has been front and center in U.S. politics — from the Supreme Court decision to recent state referendums — the Catholic Church faces a challenge of promoting its pro-life message to its own members and society at large, said Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori.
