All 17 passengers in the limo and its driver were killed when the car ran through a stop sign, struck two pedestrians and a parked car, and landed in a shallow ravine.
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Pope Francis: An abortion is like hiring a hit man to “fix a problem”
“Is it right to hire a hit man to solve a problem? No, you can’t. It’s not right to take out a human being, a small one, too, in order to fix a problem. It is like hiring a professional killer,” the pope said.
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Ruling strikes down parts of St. Louis ‘abortion ordinance’
The ruling said the ordinance violated the First Amendment rights of Catholic elementary schools and Our Lady’s Inn, by requiring them to employ or house people who are not abortion opponents.
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U.N. declaration on human rights must extend to unborn, says speaker
Robert George, a professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University, suggested in a Sept. 20 talk that although the Universal Declaration of Human Rights doesn’t mention this, its demand for respect for human dignity should even extend to the unborn.
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English bishop commends government ruling on abortion clinic buffer zones
A Catholic bishop has praised a decision by the British government not to impose exclusion zones around abortion clinics throughout the country.
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Argentine Senate rejects legalizing elective abortion
A grassroots movement came closer than ever to achieving the decriminalization of the procedure in the homeland of Pope Francis.
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Members of Congress urge new rules for transparency of health plans that cover abortion
The letter also requested that health plans which include abortion notify consumers of that fact at the time of enrollment to prevent consumers from buying such plans if they who do not wish to.
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U.S. Catholic bishops, advocacy groups welcome change on death penalty
Pope Francis has revised the church’s catechism to state that the death penalty is no longer admissible.
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Reflecting on “Humanae Vitae,” 50 years on
Our July 25 guest is Holly Taylor Coolman, an assistant professor of theology at Providence College in Rhode Island. We discuss her recent article ‘50 years after Humanae Vitae,’ we still buy into the myth of the self-made man.’ We also discuss these articles: Vatican expert: To fight sex abuse, the Catholic Church must invest in women With ‘strongman […]
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Rome Diocese opens sainthood process for young Italian mother
The Diocese of Rome formally opened the sainthood process for a young Italian wife and mother who avoided inducing a premature birth and invasive treatment for cancer while she was pregnant.