The Vatican urged the international community to press for a “special statute” to guarantee religious freedom in the city of Jerusalem in any agreements regarding a peace deal between Israel and Palestine.

Three more pro-life activists, including one famous in the 1980s for her abortion clinic “rescues,” were convicted Sept. 15 on federal felony charges of conspiracy against rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act, for a blockade at a Washington abortion clinic in 2020.

The Wisconsin Catholic Conference, the public policy voice of Wisconsin’s bishops, expressed “deep sadness and dismay” that Planned Parenthood plans to resume abortions in Wisconsin starting Sept. 18.

Pro-life leaders criticized comments made by former President Donald Trump that appeared to reject proposals of a national abortion limit at 15 weeks and called some state abortion bans “terrible.”

Archbishop William E. Lori announces appointments, including three associate pastors