Abortion Archives

U.S. bishops need to ‘listen to the people’ on Eucharist document, panel says

Jul 29, 2021

After advocating for different outcomes on the vote to draft a teaching document on the Eucharist at last month’s spring assembly, Bishop Kevin Rhoades and Cardinal Joseph Tobin emphasized Tuesday the importance of dialogue with the whole American Church, not just the episcopacy, in formulating the document.

By John Lavenburg

Abortion in Northern Ireland threatens peace process, bishops say

Jul 28, 2021

Catholic bishops in Northern Ireland warned that unilateral moves by the British government to force Northern Ireland’s Department of Health to introduce abortion services threaten the region’s peace process.

By Michael Kelly, CNS

Mississippi’s attorney general in brief urges high court to overturn Roe

Jul 27, 2021

Many would like to believe the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion settled the issue “once and for all,” but instead “all it did was establish a special-rules regime for abortion jurisprudence,” said Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch.

By Catholic News Service

SF Archbishop says Pelosi can’t call herself a ‘devout Catholic’

Jul 23, 2021

The leader of Nancy Pelosi’s home archdiocese reiterated Thursday that devout Catholics cannot condone abortion, after comments from the speaker of the house about her devout Catholicism and support for taxpayer funding of abortion.

By John Lavenburg

To church’s dismay, Veracruz state approves bill decriminalizing abortion

Jul 22, 2021

Lawmakers in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz approved a bill decriminalizing abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. It was the second such decriminalization measure approved in Mexico in barely two weeks.

By David Agren

What would founding feminist say to women’s movement today?

Jul 22, 2021

We Americans often tend to think of rights as the first reality, that we are fundamentally beings with rights – for example, the right to life, the right to religious liberty, the right to property (perhaps foremost of all!)

By Charles C. Camosy

Both on communion and Latin Mass, ‘weaponization’ may be Pope’s target

Jul 18, 2021

If you want to understand why Pope Francis is willing to use the power of his office to enforce discipline on the Latin Mass but not on communion for pro-choice politicians, maybe a concern for “weaponization” of the faith is at least part of it.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Spending bills without Hyde seen as move to expand abortion on demand

Jul 17, 2021

WASHINGTON — In eliminating the Hyde Amendment in spending bills for fiscal year 2022, the “pro-abortion” Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee “destroy over 40 years of previously unprecedented bipartisan support for a measure aimed at saving human lives,” said the president of National Right to Life. “This is a

By Julie Asher