Priests for Life head says Vatican didn’t tell him directly he was laicized December 19, 2022By Julie Asher 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.
Dobbs decision dominates Supreme Court’s year December 10, 2022By Carol Zimmermann 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.
State Supreme Court reinstates Georgia’s six-week ban on abortions November 24, 2022By Catholic News Service 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.
U.S. Catholic leaders speak out against three November executions November 21, 2022By Carol Zimmermann 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.
Speakers outline medical, societal trends threatening Catholic health care November 19, 2022By Kurt Jensen 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.
Pro-life efforts call for ‘radical solidarity,’ Archbishop Lori says November 16, 2022By Christopher Gunty 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.
As USCCB president, Archbishop Broglio says he welcomes meeting with Biden November 16, 2022By Dennis Sadowski 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.
Church has ‘work to do’ in promoting pro-life message, bishops told by Archbishop Lori November 16, 2022By Carol Zimmermann 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.
After abortion vote, Michigan prelate says church must help women even more November 15, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News In a letter to the faithful, Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit said he grieved with those who have spent months praying, fasting and advocating against Proposal 3 for the “millions of lives” that are now at stake because of the ballot proposal’s passage Nov. 8.
Annual National Prayer Vigil for Life will take place in Washington Jan. 19-20 November 15, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The National Prayer Vigil for Life held each January will continue even with the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade because there is “still a great need for prayer and advocacy”‘ to end abortion and protect the unborn and their mothers, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said Nov. 11.
Men encouraged to stand up for the sanctity of life November 14, 2022By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2022 Havens urged men to repent for any role they may have played in promoting abortion and for not standing up against abortion. He said they must resolve to do more so that a day will come when abortion is “illegal in law and unthinkable in culture, so that nobody would even consider it.”
Link between death penalty and racism can’t be ignored, advocates say November 13, 2022By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, Respect Life, World News Advocates working to end the death penalty say they have long seen the links between racism and capital punishment and they plan to continue to speak out about it until they see a change.
