This moment is an opportunity for trusted adults, and especially faith leaders, to connect with young people and find out how their spirituality is connected to their feelings about Dobbs v. Jackson.
Pro-Life
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Archbishop Lori: Joe Biden’s abortion order is ‘deeply disturbing, tragic’
The U.S. bishops’ pro-life chairman said it is “deeply disturbing and tragic” that the president has chosen to use his power as the nation’s chief executive “to promote and facilitate abortion in our country.”
Posted inFaith, News
In new interview, Pope Francis discusses abortion, the Vatican’s controversial China deal and resignation rumors
In a wide-ranging interview with the Reuters news agency, Pope Francis condemned abortion, dismissed the idea that he’s preparing to resign and said he still hopes to be able to visit Russia and Ukraine in the fall.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
I was always personally pro-life but politically pro-choice. Now, I’m ready to drop the pro-choice label.
We now live in a “shout your abortion” nation, and a message that crass will never be embraced in more conservative parts of the United States, nor should it be.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholics should care about restricting cigarettes
Catholics have an opportunity to approach tobacco policy for what it is—a pro-life issue.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Catholic churches vandalized by abortion-rights advocates following Supreme Court ruling
Several acts of vandalism targeting Catholic churches occurred in the days following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Dobbs could be the beginning of the end for the pro-life movement—unless we step up to the challenge.
We cannot protect the unborn simply by defeating something or rolling back cultural developments. We must build something.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Vatican: After Roe v. Wade, it’s time for widespread pro-life work
A truly pro-life celebration of overturning Roe v. Wade would involve efforts to pass legislation protecting life, women’s rights and motherhood, said an editorial in the Vatican newspaper.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
We need to talk about ‘life of the mother’ exceptions in abortion law.
Have we considered how to handle the ethical dilemmas that overturning Roe v. Wade will cause when states pass abortion laws so restrictive they will endanger the lives of mothers?
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: Roe v. Wade was a legal and moral travesty. Its end can bring true justice for women and the unborn.
What is most needed in the public debate on abortion is an honest moral reckoning with the two goods that are in tension when a woman faces a pregnancy she feels she cannot continue.