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Fauci says Biden expected to overturn ‘Mexico City policy’ in ‘coming days’


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Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Dr. Anthony Fauci told the World Health Organization’s executive board Jan. 21 that “in the coming days,” President Joe Biden will revoke the so-called “Mexico City policy,” which blocks U.S. funding of foreign nongovernmental organizations that perform and promote abortion as a form of family planning.

Movie Review: ‘Greenland’


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Catholic News Service Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News

A steady focus on the believable characters who populate it elevates director Ric Roman Waugh’s engaging film above the status of a disaster movie. But the positive values displayed along the path of the quest for survival he and screenwriter Chris Sparling chart are offset by the disturbing nature of the mayhem they unleash.

USCCB president prays God grants Biden ‘wisdom, courage’ to lead nation


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Catholic News Service Filed Under: 2020 Election, Feature, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News

As Joe Biden prepared to be inaugurated as the 46th U.S. president, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, expressed hope the incoming administration “will work with the church and others of goodwill” to “address the complicated cultural and economic factors that are driving abortion and discouraging families.”

At national memorial, Cardinal Gregory prays for all who died of COVID-19


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Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, World News

Saying the nation “reverently pauses in supplication to remember and to pray for the many thousands of people who have died from the coronavirus during this past year,” Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory offered the invocation at a pre-inauguration memorial service Jan. 19 to honor and remember the more than 400,000 Americans who have succumbed to COVID-19.

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