Lisa Montgomery put to death after Supreme Court reversal January 13, 2021By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News After a flurry of court decisions, the Supreme Court reversed a pair of rulings from federal appeals courts that had put death-row inmate Lisa Montgomery’s execution on hold, and it denied two other last-minute requests to postpone the execution.
‘Village’ lifts Columbia Pregnancy Center January 7, 2021By Paul McMullen Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life, Uncategorized The coronavirus pandemic should have played havoc with the Columbia Pregnancy Center, but its benefactors had other ideas.
National Prayer Vigil for Life will be virtual this year January 6, 2021By 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, 2020By 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, 2020By 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, 2020By 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, 2020By 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, 2020By 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, 2020By 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, 2020By 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, 2020By 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, 2020By 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.
