Defend life, promote access to health care for all, pope says
The fear, sickness, death, mourning and economic impacts of COVID-19 should make people who are relatively well off and have access to health care think about "what it means to be vulnerable and live in precariousness on a daily basis," Pope Francis told members of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
Be prophets of ‘hope-filled future,’ pope tells young people
The world needs prophets and true witnesses of hope in a time of uncertainty and trial, Pope Francis told Catholic young people.
Migrants, advocates gather at border, call on Biden to ‘save our asylum’
More than 200 supporters gathered on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border near Nogales, Arizona, Sept. 25, the eve of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, to accompany 25 families seeking asylum in the United States.
‘Nest mentality’ in church leads to judgment, exclusion, pope says
Christians must be on guard and avoid the temptation of thinking themselves better than others, an attitude that risks turning the church into a place of "separation and not communion," Pope Francis said.
Hawaii Mass is send-off for remains of war-hero priest to return to Kansas
Hawaii bid aloha to Father Emil J. Kapaun, a U.S. Army Korean War chaplain and candidate for sainthood Sept. 23.
House OKs abortion bill called ‘far outside the American mainstream’
In a 218-211 vote Sept. 24, the U.S. House passed what opponents consider one of the most extreme abortion bills ever seen in the nation -- the Women's Health Protection Act.
Advocates support $3.5 trillion bill, but urge abortion funding be cut
The multitrillion dollar spending bill being considered in Congress has gained support from key Catholic advocates in large part because of measures that would help reduce poverty.
Texas abortion providers ask court to speed up abortion law review
Texas abortion providers urged the Supreme Court Sept. 23 to once again, and quickly, review their challenge to the state law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
Two Miami priests hope to visit Haitian migrants in limbo at Texas border
Two senior Haitian American priests from the Archdiocese of Miami planned to travel to Texas Sept. 24 to meet and pray with some of the thousands of migrants stuck in limbo at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Catholics should debate issues, not debase each other, cardinal says
Honest and open debate about different points of view in the Catholic Church are fundamental, but Catholics should not be demonizing the individuals with those views, Cardinal George Pell said.
