4+ hour, 2+ min ago  (1038+ words) More than a year after President Donald Trump pardoned 23 pro-life activists convicted of violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE Act, and the Justice Department announced it would severely limit prosecutions of such cases, the department…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (462+ words) (OSV News) " Two U. S. bishops, who lead the U. S. Catholic bishops" efforts on pro-life and migration concerns, have advised the new head of the Department of Homeland Security of their "grave concern" over the treatment of pregnant and postpartum women in immigration…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago  (1561+ words) Students, families and pro-life advocates gathered at St. Mary's Catholic Church and the Maryland State Capitol on April 6 for the Maryland March for Life, an evening of prayer, speeches and public witness centered on the dignity of human life and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (476+ words) Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, chairman of the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops" Committee on Pro-Life Activities, offered his support to legislation that would revoke the Food and Drug Administration"s approval of mifepristone for abortions. However, the bill faces…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (670+ words) The sanctity of life, from conception to its natural end, must be defended, especially now, in a world marked by "the madness of war," Pope Leo XIV said. When greeting Polish-speaking visitors during his general audience in St. Peter's Square…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (424+ words) Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. , announced March 11 he has introduced legislation in the Senate that would ban mifepristone, a drug commonly, but not exclusively, used for first trimester abortion. The Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act, if enacted, would revoke the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (784+ words) About 100 people gathered on the campus of the University of Notre Dame Feb. 27 for an early evening event that organizers had been calling their "March on the Dome" just the day before. The student-led march had been in the works…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (938+ words) A professor at the University of Notre Dame has declined a research directorship appointment at the school, following weeks of outcry from students, staff and several U. S. Catholic bishops, over her prominent advocacy for abortion. Susan Ostermann, associate professor in the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (653+ words) Pope Leo XIV has pointed to Our Lady of Guadalupe as the model of "perfect inculturation" as Mexico prepares to mark the 500th anniversary of the apparition in 2031 with a jubilee year. In a Feb. 24 message to the Theological-Pastoral Congress being…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (990+ words) Two weeks after calling on the University of Notre Dame to withdraw its appointment of pro-abortion professor Susan Ostermann as head of one of the school's research centers, Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend joined students to pray for…...