Both sides of the lawsuit concerning the U.S. government’s controversial birth control mandate moved one-step closer to conclusion this week as the government and representatives of the Little Sisters filed court-ordered proposals for alternatives to the way the program is currently being run.
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The eulogy delivered by the mother of a 23 year-old woman who died from a heroin overdose is the talk of the Internet – and a desperate call for attention to what has become a devastating epidemic in America.
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Blood martyrdom has not yet come to the Western world, but we have all experienced the persecution Pope Francis described during morning Mass on Tuesday - the "polite" kind that is “disguised as culture, modernity and progress” but that actually robs us of our freedom.
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A developmentally-delayed toddler who could only communicate with gestures was suddenly able to speak after surviving a near drowning.
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Kim Vaillancourt with Wyatt Eli
A 36 year-old young mother from New York, who is suffering from a rare form of brain cancer and who opted to delay treatment until after her baby was born, has given birth to a healthy baby boy named Wyatt Eli – a name which means “little warrior sent by God.”
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Pro-life students at Georgetown University aren’t about to let Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards spread her propaganda on campus without a challenge and have arranged for Abby Johnson, former clinic director and “Planned Parenthood Employee of the Year” to speak on the same day.
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In his new exhortation on marriage and family, Pope Francis is adamant about how children should be taught to “accept their own body as it was created” and to avoid the pretension of cancelling out sexual difference “because one no longer knows how to deal with it.”
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Amoris Laetitia is very much a document of the two synods from which it sprung.
Mary Jo Anderson
In this Oct. 20, 2014, file photo, cardinals gather in the Synod Hall at the Vatican. Church experts say synods should get more input from lay faithful. (CNS photo/Maria Grazia Picciarella, Pool)
There has been great frenzy the last several days following the presentation of Amoris Laetitia (“The Joy of Love”), Pope Francis’ post-synodal exhortation on the family. The quick take is this: it’s a draw. That collective exhale heard around the world last Friday was the sound of a pause before the next round—maybe in the next pontificate. The orthodox and progressive camps are looking at a glass half-full but also half-empty. Meanwhile, canon lawyers have a collective headache.
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Religious freedom was upheld yesterday in a federal court when justices threw out a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) aimed at forcing a Catholic hospital system to commit abortions regardless of their religious objections.
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A decision by the University of Notre Dame to grant a prestigious award to pro-abortion Vice President Joe Biden is being met with increasing scorn by bishops, students, alumni and now faculty.
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