Leading Democrats and LGBT groups immediately denounced the move, saying “conscience protections” could become a license to discriminate, particularly against gay and transgender people.
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Priest tends to miners and sex workers deep in Peru’s Amazon
It’s near this forlorn corner of the Amazon that Pope Francis will visit Friday amid what has been called a modern-day gold rush of illegal miners threatening the world’s largest rainforest.
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Jesuits issue revised statement on abortion on eve of March for Life 2018
Describing abortion as a “key social evil” in the United States, the Jesuits say: “The most fundamental building block of a just social order is respect for human life.”
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President Trump to address March for Life crowd live via satellite
During their tenure in office, President Ronald Reagan, President George H.W. Bush and President George W. Bush all addressed the march via telephone or a radio hookup from the Oval Office.
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Poll shows a strong majority of Americans want restrictions on abortion
“The labels (pro-choice and pro-life) don’t quite tell the full story.”
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Pope Francis blesses the marriage of two flight attendants aboard the papal plane
The couple said, “I do” Thursday morning after telling Francis that they had been married in a civil service in 2010.
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Vatican official sends message of support to March for Life participants
n a message of support for the March for Life in Washington, a Vatican official praised “the tens of thousands” of participants for their witness to the “value of every human life”.
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Stressed-out Anglican priests turn to trade unions for support
The stresses of the job hit rural priests particularly hard.
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Cupich calls young pro-life marchers the ‘new Magi’
“You are the new Magi in our time, who teach us all to keep our heads up, and amid the darkness of the night at times, to take heart that God is still in the heavens, guiding us like that Bethlehem star.”
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‘No one can replace a mother,’ Chilean inmate tells Pope Francis
Pope Francis has visited other prisons, but this was the first time on his travels as pope that he visited one just for women. He was greeted by women standing with their babies in their arms.