The repeal of Ireland’s Eighth Amendment, which guarantees the right to life of the unborn, has passed with a nearly 2-1 margin.
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We need a new pro-life movement built on social justice
By enrolling in a largely pro-choice public health program I was able to articulate a pro-life vision that I could truly believe in.
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Some Irish believe lives were saved by country’s prohibition on abortion
The Irish bishops have warned that if the Eighth Amendment is repealed, legislation the government plans to introduce would make Ireland one of the most liberal abortion regimes in Europe.
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How Justin Trudeau is causing Canada to examine its own conscience
Our May 16 guest is Dean Dettloff, America‘s Toronto correspondent and a junior member of the Institute for Christian Studies. We discuss his recent article, “Justin Trudeau’s ‘celebrity secularism’ and an examination of Canadian conscience.” Listen to the show live on Wednesday at 1:00 PM EST on The Catholic Channel Sirius XM 129, or return […]
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Toronto Cardinal urges pro-lifers at Canadian march to ‘speak more loudly by silence’
An estimated 75-100 pro-abortion advocates, some wearing black bandanas over their faces, screamed chants and waved signs, halting the National March for Life until marchers turned around and took a different route through the streets of downtown Ottawa.
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Legalizing abortion would betray Ireland’s future
The United States can offer this nation’s own grim legacy on abortion as an ominous warning to the Irish people.
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Faith groups decry immigration detention of pregnant women
ICE officials in March announced that more than 500 pregnant women had been detained.
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Pope Francis mourns death of British toddler Alfie Evans
The 23-month-year-old died on April 28 from complications of a degenerative brain condition.
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Toddler Alfie Evans’ parents call for truce
The father of terminally ill toddler Alfie Evans called for a truce in a divisive case that has pitted doctors and the British courts against Alfie’s parents, Christian groups and Pope Francis.
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What did Pope Francis mean when he said the unborn and the poor are equally sacred?
A prophetic pro-life stance “has no limits,” while an “ideological approach” zeroes in on particulars.