Nation Has Gone Down ‘Dark Road,’ Says Bishop

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.

New York State Catholic Conference: Assisted Suicide Is Bad Medicine for NYS

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.

Book Refutes Notion Of Dorothy Day As ‘Dissenting Catholic’

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.”

Pope Taps Gregory To Succeed Wuerl In Washington, D.C.

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.

‘Our Nation is Better than Infanticide’

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.