11+ hour, 32+ min ago   (1195+ words) As the pro-life movement faces tensions with previous political allies, Catholic writer Kathryn Jean Lopez, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and religion editor at National Review magazine, recently spoke with Charles Camosy for OSV News about the…...

12+ hour, 55+ min ago   (512+ words) ROME (OSV News) "Pope Leo XIV strongly defended the family, marriage and unborn life during his first-ever New Year's address to the diplomatic corps Jan. 9, telling the diplomats accredited to the Holy See that abortion "cuts short a growing life…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (554+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) "After President Donald Trump told House Republicans to be "flexible" on the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits public funding of elective abortions, in negotiations on health care subsidies, a key national pro-life group argued the policy should be…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (528+ words) (OSV News) "On Dec. 21, Puerto Rico's Gov. Jenniffer Gonz'lez-Col'n approved Law 183-2025, which amends the Civil Code of Puerto Rico and recognizes the unborn child or "nasciturus" " a Latin legal term referring to "conceived but not born" " as a natural person…...

1+ mon, 6+ hour ago   (551+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) "The White House Dec. 9 rejected a call from a national pro-life organization for U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary to be fired. The pro-life group argued Makaray has "slow-walked a promised safety study of women's real-world…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (547+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) "The Supreme Court on Dec. 2 heard oral arguments in an appeal from a group of faith-based pregnancy centers in New Jersey challenging an investigation by that state's attorney general alleging they misled people about their services and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (680+ words) (OSV News) "In 2024, pregnancy centers saw more new clients, provided more medical care and distributed more material goods than ever before, according to a new report from the Charlotte Lozier Institute. Between free medical care, education services such as childbirth…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (975+ words) By Tanya Connor / The Catholic Free PressWORCESTER, Mass. (OSV News) "This fall the Vatican paved the way for the Worcester Diocese to begin the cause for the potential canonization of a local Catholic " Ruth V. K. Pakaluk. Ruth, a wife and mother…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (319+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) "The U.S. Catholic bishops Nov. 19 called on the faithful to observe a nationwide prayer vigil Jan. 22-23 "to pray for an end to abortion and a greater respect for all human life in post-Roe America." "Together, we must pray…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (644+ words) Bishop Thomas said he sees the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops" Committee on Pro-Life Activities" role as speaking "as best we can to issues that arise that require a moral voice and issues that arise that require really an effort for…...