Signs Of the Times

The church teaches that “every life has value and dignity. That is a given,” said Andy Rivas, executive director of the Texas Catholic Conference during a Feb. 24 program at the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington. Rivas helped devise a program of events in Texas in November that sought

Tom McCluskey, vice president of FRC Action, the legislative arm of the Washington-based Family Research Council, said the effort to ratify amendments to the U.S. Constitution may provide a better analogy for state-by-state campaigns to restrict abortion than efforts to abolish the death penalty. Bu

What would happen in a Roe v. Wade reversal is far from certain, Balch added. “Theres a lot of scholarly writing in the event of what would happen,” she said, like how to enforce a law outlawing abortion that is still on the books but that has been dormant for close to four decades. “Even if there a