Life

British MP lambasted for defending Church teaching on abortion and gay marriage
- Church, Global Church, Life
- September 11, 2017
A Catholic Member of Parliament is under fire in Britain for saying he opposes abortion and same-sex marriage. The British Prime Minister has expressed her disagreement with him, but stated that these matters are up to one’s conscience.
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New York court delivers big win to foes of physician-assisted suicide
- Church in the US, Life
- September 9, 2017
On Thursday, New York’s appellate court ruled that the state legislature’s ban on physician-assisted suicide was constitutional. The decision is a major victory for opponents of the practice, although assisted suicide activists have vowed to press ahead in their efforts to legalize the practice in the state.
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How a pro-life group will hold members of Congress accountable
- Catholic News Agency, Life
- January 8, 2017
March for Life Action hopes to not only record pro-life votes, but also to record initiatives by members such as sponsorship of pro-life bills and speaking out about a pro-life matter on the House or Senate floor.
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Transgender man says surgery denied at Catholic hospital
- Associated Press, Life
- January 7, 2017
Jionni Conforti has sued St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, N.J., after he said it cited religion in refusing to allow his surgeon to perform a hysterectomy procedure he said was medically necessary as part of his gender transition. Conforti had scheduled the surgery in 2015, but he alleges in the federal lawsuit that a hospital administrator then told him the procedure to remove the uterus he was born with couldn’t be done because it was a “Catholic hospital.”
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Visiting the monasteries and churches of Rila and Bachkovo
- Life
- March 31, 2016
St. Ivan found God in the mountains, in caves, and the hollows of trees. Born in the late 9th century, the patron saint of Bulgaria retreated from secular life at age 25 and he never returned. He first entered a monastery, and, after finding it inadequate, he headed into the wilderness of
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‘Bicycle Thieves’ and true poverty
- Life
- March 31, 2016
One of the 45 films of the 1995 Vatican film list in the “Values” category, “Bicycle Thieves” (1948) is new on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection. The enduring power of Vittorio De Sica’s heartbreaking Italian neorealist classic “Bicycle Thieves” (originally released in the US as “The Bicycle Thief”) lies in
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