Pope Francis stands at the end of the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (Alessandra Tarantino/AP via Crux) By Inés San Martín... read more →
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON | The Senate in an evening vote Feb. 25 failed to pass a measure sponsored by Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska, to require that babies born... read more →
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Forty years ago, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., St. John Paul II affirmed the validity of absolute moral norms including prohibitions against sins such as... read more →
Pro-life advocates gather near the U.S. Capitol in Washington Jan. 18, 2019. Democrats in the Senate voted Feb. 25 almost uniformly to block the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a... read more →
Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., speaks during the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast May 24 in Washington. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn) The U.S. bishops' pro-life committee chairman Feb. 27... read more →
Credit: Africa Studio/Shutterstock. With a bill to legalize abortion for any reason until birth advancing in Vermont, the local Catholic bishop has stressed that defending unborn babies is a matter... read more →
Credit: GagliardiImages/Shutterstock. The Missouri Supreme Court has rejected a legal challenge against an informed consent abortion law from a self-described Satanic Temple adherent who claimed the state violated her religious... read more →
The Massacre of the Innocents, the biblical recount of infanticide by Herod the Great, on a stained glass in the cathedral of Rouen, France. (SHUTTERSTOCK) That we should be having... read more →
Josephine Bakhita. Credit: A.Currell via Flickr (CC BY NC 2.0) Pope Francis called Sunday for an end to human trafficking, encouraging Catholics to pray for the intercession of St. Josephine... read more →
Iowa State Capitol building in Des Moines. Credit: Henryk Sadura / Shutterstock. An Iowa Supreme Court decision declaring abortion to be a fundamental right bars the way to appeal a... read more →