A rule proposed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Aug. 7 governing the implementation of the law contains broad language including abortion among “related medical conditions.”
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Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment puts the U.S. in ‘uncharted territory,’ Catholic scholars say
Robert Schmuhl, professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Notre Dame, said that “as indictments and court cases against former President Trump increase, he becomes stronger with his supporters.”
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Ron DeSantis trades barbs with pro-life group over interview comments on abortion
Republican presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida traded barbs with a national pro-life group July 31 over comments he made on enacting abortion policy at the federal level.
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Bishop Flores: Texas car crash that killed 7 migrants part of ‘corrosive tendency’ to devalue vulnerable human life
In response to the crash in Brownsville, Bishop Flores said, “We must resist the corrosive tendency to devalue the lives of immigrants, the poor, and the vulnerable.”
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National pro-life group calls Trump campaign’s abortion position ‘morally indefensible’
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America pushed back against a statement by Donald Trump, saying instead that “Life is a matter of human rights, not states’ rights.”
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Louisiana’s Catholic Democratic governor calls on his ‘pro-life state’ to abolish the death penalty
Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-La., called for an end to the death penalty in Louisiana during his final State of the State address in an impassioned call for lawmakers to adopt legislative proposals reflecting its identity as a “pro-life state.”
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House committee alleges FBI used undercover agent to produce analysis on ‘radical traditionalist’ Catholics
In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, alleged the FBI suggested that “certain kinds of Catholic Americans may be domestic terrorists.”
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Catholic experts weigh in on Donald Trump’s indictment and 2024 campaign: ‘Death by a thousand lawsuits’
Robert Schmuhl, professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Notre Dame, said that “the word ‘unprecedented’ is becoming the most common word associated with Donald Trump and his political career.”
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Archbishop Cordileone on Nancy Pelosi’s abortion remarks: ‘Protect and support all human life’
In a March 27 statement to OSV News, Archbishop Cordileone, who previously barred Pelosi from receiving the Eucharist in his archdiocese, said, “We know from science that life begins at conception.”
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Bishop Rhoades: ‘Reproductive justice’ lecture series with abortion doula a ‘scandal,’ ‘unworthy’ of University of Notre Dame
The decision “to provide an unanswered activist’s case that abortion is a tool of justice for the marginalized,” Bishop Kevin Rhoades wrote, “is a grave mistake in judgment that creates scandal.”