Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2020 Election, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
If President Donald Trump’s legal efforts to challenge his 2020 reelection results prove unsuccessful and Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States, pro-life advocates are finding no silver linings.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2020 Election, Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News
The Election Day defeat of Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minnesota, will shrink the number of pro-life Democrats in the House of Representatives by two when the 117th Congress is seated in January.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News
As protests against a near-total ban on abortions gripped Poland, Pope Francis urged the people of the country to defend life.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
Poland’s bishops’ conference decried attacks on churches by demonstrators protesting a near-total ban on abortions by the country’s Constitutional Court and urged restraint from violence and dialogue.
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