Court rules in favor of inmate’s prayer request during execution March 25, 2022By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court March 24 ruled in favor of a Texas prisoner who wanted his pastor to pray aloud over him and place his hands on him in the execution chamber.
Court nominee responds to questions about law, faith and abortion March 24, 2022By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson began with introductory remarks March 21 followed by 13 hours of questioning the next day about her role as a judge and a public defender and her views on abortion, critical race theory and her own faith.
Archbishop Lori joins USCCB president, committee chairmen to recommit church to pro-life initiatives March 22, 2022By Julie Asher Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News As the nation awaits the U.S. Supreme Court’s most significant abortion ruling in decades, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the chairmen of eight USCCB committees joined together “in prayer and expectant hope that states will again be able to protect women and children from the injustice of abortion.”
British Parliament rejects amendment to allow assisted suicide March 18, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The British Parliament threw out an attempt to legalize assisted suicide in England and Wales.
Catholic leaders: Maryland bill would ‘expand an already extreme abortion landscape’ March 16, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Respect Life There is a disturbing proposal making its way through the legislative process in Annapolis that seeks to enshrine abortion in our state’s constitution. House Bill 1171 is an attempt to unnecessarily amend Maryland’s Constitution to expand an already extreme abortion landscape under the guise of “reproductive liberty.”
Sacraments and Eastern Catholics/ Marriage open to children April 13, 2021By Father Kenneth Doyle Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Respect Life Father Doyle fields questions about the sacraments and Eastern Catholics, and entering marriage being open to children.
Welcome people with Down syndrome for who they are March 21, 2021By Molly Sheahan Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary, Respect Life People with Down syndrome are valuable because they are people, members of the human family, cherished by God their creator.
Bishops: Relief will help many; lack of Hyde protections ‘unconscionable’ March 10, 2021By Julie Asher Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act heading to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature will provide relief to Americans in need amid the pandemic, but it lacks “protections for the unborn,” the U.S. bishops said.
Catonsville, Owings Mills rally around 40 Days for Life campaign March 8, 2021By Matthew Liptak Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life “We could always use more (people),” said Frazier, who prays outside the clinic once a week, throughout the year. “Still, I feel like we got a lot of participation. We had a baby saved in December and in January. We need to be here.”
COVID-19 bill OK’d without Hyde language to prevent funding of abortion March 2, 2021By Julie Asher Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News On the House floor ahead of the vote — which came at 2 in the morning (EST) — Rep. Chris Smith, N.J., criticized Pelosi and the House Rules Committee for refusing to allow a vote on an amendment to add language to the bill “to ensure that taxpayers aren’t forced to subsidize abortion,” as provided by the long-standing Hyde Amendment.
RADIO INTERVIEW: What parents need to know about human trafficking February 22, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, Marriage & Family Life, News, Parenting, Radio Interview, Respect Life Erin Younkins discusses the scourage of human trafficking and its prevalence in our society.
Students object to Abby Johnson as speaker, call her past comments ‘hate speech’ February 10, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, Respect Life, World News In her Zoom presentation for The Catholic University of America Feb. 9, Abby Johnson didn’t address the controversy that had preceded her appearance.