The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling June 24 in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned the court’s landmark Roe v. Wade ruling returned the legislative authority to regulate abortion to the states.
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The Catholic parish in a time of violence
We seem to be in an epidemic of mass shootings, with so many innocent people killed, leaving entire communities in deep pain.
Archbishop Lori and Cardinal Dolan say House bill to codify Roe is ‘unjust, extreme’
The chairmen of two U.S. bishops’ committees said a measure passed by the House July 15 is “the most unjust and extreme abortion on demand bill our nation has ever seen.”
Pro-life leader says bills OK’d by House ‘promote extreme abortion agenda’
Two abortion measures passed by the House July 15 “promote an extreme abortion agenda,” said Jeanne Mancini, president of March for Life.
San Antonio archbishop: Migrants are often abandoned, stripped of identity
The way Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio sees it, the only thing to blame is the system, and the tragedies in Texas are part of a bigger and complex problem, he said in a July 8 interview with Catholic News Service.
International leaders urged to step up efforts to combat human trafficking
A congressman urged the OSCE’s nearly 60 member nations to step up their efforts to implement and strengthen laws combating modern-day slavery.
After tragedies in archdiocese, archbishop says good will win over evil
San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller was still tending to the pain of the community of Uvalde, Texas, reeling from a mass school shooting that in late May left 19 children, many of them fourth graders, and their two teachers dead, when another tragedy landed on the doorstep of his Texas diocese.
After fires set, pastor encourages people to remember ‘we are the church’
A Catholic church in the Washington suburb of Bethesda was one of three houses of worship along the same road to be victimized by vandalism the weekend of July 9-10.
Pro-life leader says executive order is effort ‘to appease abortion lobby’
A national pro-life leader said President Joe Biden’s July 8 executive order on abortion “confirmed the White House is working to appease the abortion lobby to the detriment of women and their unborn children.”
European bishops’ group criticizes EU Parliament resolution on abortion
– A resolution that passed the European Parliament criticizing the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion and calling for inclusion in the Charter of the European Union of a universal right to abortion is part of a “radical political” agenda that threatens basic human rights and the cohesion of the union, said the general secretary of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union.
Archbishop Lori joins bishops saying U.S. mass shootings have become ‘shockingly commonplace’
The July 4 mass shooting brought devastation to yet another community in the U.S. and such a tragic situation “has become shockingly commonplace in our country,” said the chairmen of three committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Police deflect rioters from Portland Catholic church, avert vandalism
Police officers successfully drove dozens of anarchist rioters away from Holy Redeemer Church in Portland late July 1.