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Caring for mothers and babies the Catholic way
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (819+ words) Baroness Amos has published the final report of the Independent National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation, which concludes that the "maternity and neonatal system is not set up to deliver consistently safe, high-quality and compassionate care. The report makes its own…...
German Catholic women's group provokes alarm with abortion document
2+ week, 3+ day ago (553+ words) SOPA Images / Alamy A major German Catholic women's group adopted a document on pregnancy-related crises that caused controversy among pro-life groups and other Catholic leaders. During its national assembly on 4-6 June, the Catholic Women's Union of Germany (KFD) approved by…...
Pro-life win in Scottish buffer zone case
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (415+ words) Rose Docherty was detained by police in September 2025 near the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow for holding a sign reading: "Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want. She was the first person charged with breaking…...
Bishop urges more support for women in crisis during pregnancy
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (342+ words) Addressing pro-life supporters at Mass in Newman University Church ahead of Monday's March for Life in Dublin, Bishop Doran referred to the Bill introduced to the D'il by Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns last week which seeks to loosen current…...
Scottish bishops "disagree" with Scottish government over Assisted Dying Bill for Scotland
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (397+ words) The Bishops' Conference of Scotland John Mason MSP and Paul O'Kane MSP had tabled amendments seeking to introduce provisions allowing organisations " including hospices, care homes, and faith'based institutions " to exercise conscientious objection. In response, the Scottish Government said, "It is…...
House of Lords urged to reject 'dangerous' decriminalisation of abortion up to birth
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (689+ words) Such a change in the law would seriously endanger women's lives because of the risks of self-induced late-term abortions away from a clinical context, and likely lead to increased numbers of viable babies' lives being ended," said Baroness Rosa Monckton....
Scottish bishops oppose "undemocratic" abortion clinic buffer zone law as first person charged
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (777+ words) Fr Sean Gough and Isabel Vaughan-Spruce at Birmingham Magistrates' Court where they are accused of protesting outside an abortion clinic inside a Birmingham abortion facility buffer zone. Jacob King, PA Images / Alamy Rose Docherty, 76, has become the first person to…...
Monaco rejects abortion bill after prince asserts "place of Catholicism
7+ mon, 2+ day ago (363+ words) World Economic Forum / Sandra Blaser The government of Monaco rejected a bill to legalise abortion after Prince Albert II said it went against the'teaching of the Catholic Church. Minister of State Christophe Mirmand, a former senior French official who heads…...
Pope Leo XIV: Someone who says, "I'm against abortion but I'm in favour of the death penalty,' is not really pro-life
9+ mon, 18+ hour ago (150+ words) The Pope blesses the glacier from Greenland. Pope Leo XIV participates in the International Conference "Raising Hope for Climate Justice" tenth anniversary promoted by the Laudato Si Movement at the Mariapolis Center. US Senator Richard Durbin declined an award from…...
Indians of all faiths join pro-life march as "voice of the voiceless
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (609+ words) The 2025 March for Life was its fourth iteration since the first event in 2021. Courtesy Fr Naveen Gladstone More than 2, 500 people from across India's religious divides gathered for a pro-life march held in Bangalore this month. In the fourth annual march…...