Pro-life advocates argue that the New York law allows the most extreme forms of abortion. Pro-choice advocates respond that late-term abortions are rare and complicated. Both sides are right.
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Cardinal Dolan rejects call for Gov. Cuomo’s excommunication over new abortion law
NEW YORK (CNS) — Since Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed New York’s new expansive abortion measure into law Jan. 22, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, some Catholics have called for the governor, who is Catholic, to be excommunicated. Cuomo fully backed the Reproductive Health Act as it made its way through the Legislature. It expands […]
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Pope Francis on Venezuela, Married Priests, and the Sex Abuse Summit
During a press conference on the flight from Panama to Rome, the pope spoke on a variety of topics, including the situation in Venezuela, the issue of married priests, sex education in schools and the Vatican’s sex abuse summit.
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Bishop Stowe: Why the MAGA hats at the March for Life?
Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Ky., wrote that in a newspaper column this week that he was “astonished” that students at the March for Life would be aligned with the “Make America Great Again” movement.
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N.Y. bishops decry new abortion law signed on Roe anniversary
“Let us all pray for the conversion of heart for those who celebrate this tragic moment in the history of our state.”
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How can the Catholic Church help single mothers?
This week’s guest is Kaya Oakes. We discuss her article “How the Catholic Church can help single mothers.” We also discuss these articles: Trump’s latest proposal to end the shutdown and what the border wall won’t fix How the New Wave Feminists are changing the conversation around abortion One-third of U.S. bishops believe church ‘should’ […]
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Bishop says N.Y. abortion bill is ‘Death Star’ that must not become law
Albany’s Catholic bishop has called on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to stop the “Death Star” as he called a bill in the state Legislature to expand current state law on abortion that has the full backing of Cuomo, a Catholic.
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Boys school shuts down amid fallout over Washington videos
A Kentucky boys’ school shut down its campus Tuesday as a precaution and a small protest was held outside their diocese as fallout continued over an encounter involving white teenagers, Native American marchers and a black religious sect outside the Lincoln Memorial last week.
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Marchers urged to stand strong, fight for life with ‘compassion, hope’
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Those who stand up for the dignity of life in all its stages and want to see this respect for all life enshrined once again in U.S. law have a friend in the Pence family and the Trump administration, Vice President Mike Pence told the March for Life crowd on the National […]
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How the New Wave Feminists are changing the conversation around abortion
This week’s guest is Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa, founder of New Wave Feminists, a pro-life feminist organization dedicated to changing the divisive language surrounding the abortion debate.