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Respect Life

National Prayer Vigil for Life will be virtual this year

January 6, 2021
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Catholics across the country are instead being are encouraged to take part in a nationwide prayer vigil from Jan. 28 through Jan. 29, marking the 48th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions legalizing abortion.

Catholic advocates against death penalty urge clemency for woman on federal death row

December 30, 2020
By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

The execution date of Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, is currently undecided. In late December a federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled her execution while there had already been a stay in effect, granted because one of her attorneys tested positive for the coronavirus.

Region’s bishops urge Trump to stop planned federal execution of Maryland man

December 22, 2020
By Tim Swift
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life

The prelates of the Maryland Catholic Conference have written to President Donald Trump, urging him to not move forward with the planned federal execution of a Maryland man next month.

Death penalty hits historic low in U.S. ‘despite federal execution spree,’ says report

December 17, 2020
By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

A new report Dec. 16 by the Death Penalty Information Center said the use of capital punishment reached a historic low this year in the United States even with the return of federal executions by the Trump administration.

Maryland bishops endorse use of Pfizer, Moderna COVID vaccines

December 16, 2020
By Tim Swift
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life

The Maryland Catholic Conference – which represents bishops serving the archdioceses of Baltimore and Washington as well as the diocese of Wilmington, Del. – is recommending that the faithful receive COVID-19 vaccines developed by U.S. pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna when available.

Bishops: Getting COVID-19 vaccine is ‘act of charity,’ supports the common good

December 14, 2020
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

The “gravity” of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and “the lack of availability of alternative vaccines,” are “sufficiently serious” reasons to accept the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, the chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ doctrine and pro-life committees said Dec. 14.

Sister Prejean decries federal execution on Human Rights Day

December 12, 2020
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News

Calling the Dec. 10 federal execution of Brandon Bernard an injustice carried out by the country’s criminal justice system, Sister Helen Prejean urged Americans to speak up to stop a series of upcoming executions in the final weeks of the Trump administration.

Catholic leaders decry additional federal execution measures

December 1, 2020
By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

A move by the Department of Justice to expand how it carries out federal death sentences — to include electrocution, gas or firing squads along with lethal injections –was sharply criticized by Catholic anti-death penalty activists.

Use of Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines is morally acceptable, say bishops

November 25, 2020
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

While confusion has arisen in recent days in the media over “the moral permissibility” of using the COVID-19 vaccines just announced by Pfizer Inc. and Moderna, it is not “immoral to be vaccinated with them,” the chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ doctrine and pro-life committees said Nov. 23.

U.S. bishops urge Trump, Barr to stop upcoming federal executions

November 19, 2020
By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

In response to the upcoming federal execution of Orlando Hall Nov. 19, and two more federal executions scheduled to take place in December, two U.S. bishops’ committee chairmen called on the government to end this practice.

Working group formed to deal with conflicts between Biden policies, church teaching

November 18, 2020
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2020 Election, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit will head up a special working group of the U.S. bishops to address issues surrounding the election of a Catholic president and policies that may come about that would be in conflict with Catholic teaching and the bishops’ priorities.

Archbishop Lori to lead USCCB pro-life committee, Wisconsin priest chosen to be next general secretary

November 16, 2020
By Dennis Sadowski
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2020, World News

Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore was elected on a vote of 139-102 over Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila of Denver to lead the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, it was announced during the first day of the USCCB’s annual fall general assembly Nov. 16.

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