abortion

A Comprehensive Pro-Life Agenda

January 14, 2015

Each year, the Pro-Life movement has united at the March for Life in Washington, D.C. This year, it will be held on Thursday, Jan. 22. This event provides an opportunity for us to gather in our Nation’s capital and march down Constitution Avenue, ending at the Supreme Court, where the decision to make abortion legal in the United States has set a destructive path and human life has been reduced to a choice. It is unfortunate that there is a fundamental misunderstanding of the beginning of human life, its innate dignity and the possibility of terminating life.

Father John Cush

Cuomo’s Conflict With Church Teaching

January 8, 2015

By Father John Cush On Jan. 1, a few hours after the inauguration of his son, Andrew, in his second term of Governor of the State of New York, former New York State Governor Mario Cuomo passed away. This son of Queens, was educated locally at St. John’s Prep High School in Brooklyn and St. […]

The Cuomo Dilemma

January 8, 2015

This past Tuesday New Yorkers said farewell to Governor Mario Cuomo. Thrice elected Governor of New York Mario Cuomo was a complicated man. To some, he was a hero and to others, a villain. According to his own testimony, his Roman Catholic faith left a profound mark on his thinking and the way he lived […]

Backers of Abortion Measure Credit Prayer and Support of Churches

November 13, 2014

by Andy Telli NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) – Supporters of Amendment 1 said the measure to restore Tennessee lawmakers’ authority to regulate abortion passed Nov. 4 because of the backing by Catholic and other religious leaders and their churches. The fight now turns to the state General Assembly, which is expected to consider several bills to […]

New Orleans Archbishop: Do Not Help Build Abortion Clinic

February 19, 2014

by Peter Finney Jr. NEW ORLEANS (CNS) – Faced with the looming construction of a multimillion-dollar, regional abortion facility by Planned Parenthood Gulf South, New Orleans Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond has cautioned local Catholics and businesses they would be “cooperating with the evil that will take place” at the clinic if they participated in its […]

Court to Decide Where Talk About Abortion Is Allowed

January 22, 2014

by Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) – Supreme Court justices Jan. 15 pressed attorneys about when it is constitutional to prohibit certain kinds of speech in a case over buffer zones around abortion clinics. In oral arguments in a case over a 35-foot buffer zone around Massachusetts Planned Parenthood clinics, the attorney for people who want […]

Bishops Reject Cuomo’s Abortion Proposal

June 20, 2013

As the New York state legislature session was grinding to a halt this week, the state’s Catholic Conference was assailing Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s last-ditch efforts to radically increase abortion in New York. Abortion industry lobbyists said that Gov. Cuomo’s abortion bill would modify language about partial-birth abortion. “We believe such a change is intended to […]

Bishop Urges Defeat of Abortion Expansion Bill

June 12, 2013

Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio addressed the proposed changes in the state’s abortion law in a statement that was read at all Masses on the weekend of June 8-9. In the statement, the bishop said: “Women in our state have a right to expect equal treatment under the law. They have a right to employment that respects […]

Cardinal Dolan Opposes Cuomo’s Abortion Plans

May 24, 2013

ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) – If New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushes to have “a right to an abortion” codified in state law, he will face “vociferous” and “rigorous” opposition from Catholic and other pro-lifers, said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York. But the cardinal hopes it doesn’t come to that because Cuomo, he said, […]

Abortion Doctor Is Declared a Murderer

May 15, 2013

PHILADELPHIA (CNS) – Dr. Kermit Gosnell may have been convicted May 13 of murder at his Philadelphia abortion clinic, but “nothing can bring back the innocent children he killed, or make up for the vulnerable women he exploited,” said Archbishop Charles J. Chaput. And, he added, “the repugnance of his clinic conditions” must be remembered. […]