Tag: Abortion
U.S. bishops call refusal to include Hyde Amendment in spending bills...
WASHINGTON — The refusal by the U.S. House to include the Hyde Amendment and other pro-life riders in appropriations bills before lawmakers passed the...
Mississippi’s attorney general presents brief urging Supreme Court to overturn Roe...
WASHINGTON -- Many would like to believe the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion settled the issue "once and for...
Have questions about bishops’ Communion document? The USCCB has answers
WASHINGTON — A page on the website of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops answers a series of questions regarding the bishops’ vote to...
Republican lawmakers urge Congress to make Hyde Amendment permanent
WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and several other Republican leaders in the House asked their Democratic counterparts June 22 to take...
Catholic Democratic members of Congress press U.S. bishops not to deny...
CLEVELAND -- Shortly before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced the bishops had approved moving forward in drafting a teaching document on the...
Vaccinations raise issues in search for the best way to respect...
The COVID-19 pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and isolated us from each other as authorities struggle to prevent infections. As vaccinations...
Bishop James Wall on abortion, Communion: ‘Why aren’t we seeking eucharistic...
WASHINGTON -- It's "a fair question," said Bishop James S. Wall of Gallup, New Mexico, to ask whether U.S. bishops "are cherry-picking" from among...
Supreme Court’s decision to take up Mississippi abortion case brings issue...
WASHINGTON -- When the Supreme Court decided May 17 to take up a challenge to a Mississippi abortion law, it brought abortion back to...
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone: Without protecting right to life, none...
SAN FRANCISCO -- A pastoral letter issued May 1 by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone focuses on the unborn, Communion and Catholics in...
‘Jericho March’ against abortion includes protesters at Planned Parenthood in Dover
Armed with blessings and prayers, they have marched each Friday morning since April 9 at Planned Parenthood in Dover.
Their mission: To tear down —...