In response to Georgia’s planned execution of a death row inmate by lethal injection March 20, the archbishop of Atlanta has urged the state parole board for clemency and state anti-death penalty activists launched an online petition similarly asking the state to reconsider.
Iowa’s House Republicans passed a bill March 7 that would make it a felony to cause the death of an unborn person defined as “an individual organism … from fertilization to live birth.”
Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, the chief executive of the nation’s largest nonprofit working to feed the hungry nationwide, will receive the 2024 Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame, one of the oldest and most prestigious honors given to American Catholics.
Two days after Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill into law to protect in vitro fertilization, the head of a U.S. bishops’ committee reiterated the Catholic Church’s stance against the fertility treatment.
The state of the union “is strong and getting stronger,” President Joe Biden said in his March 7 address.
Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, has called the federal government’s decision to make permanent a policy to provide abortions under certain circumstances “at odds with the notion that the military protects the innocent.”
While New York legislators argue that assisted suicide legislation would allow terminally ill patients to die with dignity, the state’s Catholic bishops on March 5 countered that it would put the state on a “dangerous path that contaminates medicine and turns the notion of compassion on its head.”
Pope Francis has designated a Catholic priest hailing from the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania, to a prominent role in the Vatican’s highest court.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is solidifying a policy to offer abortions under specific circumstances to service members, even in states where abortion is prohibited.
The new movie “Cabrini” will be in theaters by the time you read this, and it is a sumptuous film from director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, based on the life of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the Italian Catholic sister who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
