An estimated 7,000 people, including busloads from the Richmond and Arlington dioceses, converged on the state Capitol in Richmond for the first Virginia March for Life, April 3.
An estimated 7,000 people, including busloads from the Richmond and Arlington dioceses, converged on the state Capitol in Richmond for the first Virginia March for Life, April 3.
An estimated 100,000 apprehensions of immigrants by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents at the U.S.-Mexico border in March is the highest figure in one month in a decade.
Physician-assisted suicide bills in New York, like similar bills that have passed in several other states, lack important safeguards, making coercion or misapplication of the law a serious threat. Furthermore, they send a dangerous message to society that when someone is considered a “burden” to someone else, his or her life is no longer worth living.
Terrence Wright, an associate professor of philosophy and director of the pre-theology program at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, wrote a well-intentioned introduction to Dorothy Day, setting out to rebut the false idea that she was a “dissenting Catholic.”
On the morning after his installation Mass in Memphis, Bishop David Talley joined a group of friends and family for a tour of the city’s historic National Civil Rights Museum.
In his opening words to an archdiocese reeling from scandal and accusations of sexual abuse cover-up, the newly appointed leader to Catholics in the nation’s capital, Archbishop Wilton Gregory, pledged to always tell the truth.
As the U.S. Catholic Church faces what is arguably the greatest challenge in its history, Pope Francis has tapped the man who guided the U.S. bishops through the 2002 sexual abuse crisis to lead the archdiocese of the nation’s capital, after its long-serving cardinal resigned under fire last year for his handling of abuse cases earlier in his career.
The U.S. Supreme Court April 1 decided against hearing an appeal by pro-life activist David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, of a lower court’s decision not to dismiss a Planned Parenthood civil suit against him over undercover videos filmed in 2015.
For doctors and other medical personnel not to provide care to babies who survive an abortion “is a lethal form of discrimination against the circumstances of the child’s birth,” said the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities.
This weekend, the film Unplanned defied expectations and came in #4 at the U.S. box office.