pro-life

Academy for Life no longer an ‘enclave of the ideologically pure’
- Commentary
- June 20, 2017
Some pro-lifers are upset over the appointment of the Rev. Nigel Biggar, an Anglican clergyman and moral theologian, to the Pontifical Academy of Life. He is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Christchurch College, Oxford, and director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life. He was recommended by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who was asked to send a representative. He is also a sign that Pope Francis wants the Academy to better engage with the world.
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Confused American jurisprudence on human and non-human life
- Commentary
- June 19, 2017
Catholic moral theology considers any substance of a rational and relational nature to be a person. This includes embryos, fetuses, infants, the brain dead, comatose, and the severely mentally ill. It also includes angels and demons. Could it also include apes such as chimpanzees?
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Pope Francis overhauls the Vatican’s pro-life beachhead
- Vatican
- June 13, 2017
In an overhaul on Tuesday of the Pontifical Academy for Life, long the Vatican’s primary beachhead for the most robustly pro-life voices in the Church, Pope Francis appeared to send a signal that while he doesn’t intend to muzzle the pro-life argument, he wants a body whose membership is less inclined to be combative and to protest against its own leadership.
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Delaware legislature votes to drop restrictions on abortion
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
- June 9, 2017
Lawmakers in Delaware passed a bill eliminating almost all remaining abortion restrictions drawing strong criticism from pro-life advocates, who warned it would hurt women who already have “suffered at the hands of unscrupulous abortionists.”
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Is the pro-Life movement still welcome in the anti-war movement?
- Church in the US, Commentary
- June 8, 2017
When anti-war organizations are excluding pro-life groups from their activities, it highlights the incoherence of the culture wars. What can we say about these anti-war leaders having abortion purity tests for their movements? It seems they have little or no sense of how intertwined the pro-life and anti-war movements have been and continue to be.
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“Life is winning in America,” Pence encourages Catholic prayer breakfast
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
- June 7, 2017
“This honestly feels like coming home to me,” said United States Vice President Mike Pence before an audience at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, where he promised that the United States will continue to be committed to religious freedom, after proclaiming that “life is winning” in the nation.
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Academy for Life no longer an ‘enclave of the ideologically pure’