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March for Life president steps down to become ‘full-time mom’
March for Life president steps down to focus on family Jennie Bradley Lichter, the president of the March for Life, is stepping down to devote more time to her family …
Month: August 2026
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Massachusetts lawmakers pass bill removing all restrictions from abortion throughout pregnancy
The Massachusetts government this week moved to strip all restrictions from abortion and allow the procedure up until birth so long as a doctor approves of it. The state Senate …
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Catholic Charities leader says Texas nun has felt ‘overwhelmed with fear’ after detention by ICE
The brief detention by immigration officials of a Catholic religious sister in south Texas continues to reverberate through immigrant Catholic communities, with Sister Norma Pimentel saying the experience left lasting …
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TRINITARIANS IN MADAGASCAR/3 – One hundred years of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives: Apostolic ‘tours’, catechists and the construction of facilities at the service of the Gospel
by Antonella Prenna Moramanga – After withdrawing from the Benadir Mission in what was then Somalia, the Trinitarians continued their redemptive mission on the island of Madagascar, where they sent …
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Court shields women religious from NY assisted suicide law
The groups sued the state July 17, arguing the law would require them to facilitate such deaths for their patients in violation of their faith.
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ASIA/INDIA – Jesuit Prakash: “Young people are awakening the country’s democratic conscience”
Ahmedabad – The large-scale student protests that have swept across India in recent weeks—organized by the newly formed Cockroach Janta Party , the “People’s Cockroach Party”—are far more than a …
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Catholic advocate warns of safety risks as New York assisted suicide law looms
Ahead of New York’s assisted suicide law taking effect, Jamie Towey, president of Aging with Dignity, said the initial legislation “was easily the most dangerous bill ever written on assisted …
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Scottish bishop excommunicates rector of Redemptorists after illicit ordination
Bishop Hugh Gilbert of Aberdeen, Scotland, has pronounced Father Michael Mary Sim, rector of the Congregation of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer, to be excommunicated from the Catholic …
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Saint Leo the Wall Builder
The connection between truth and tradition is often made manifest in the names that new popes choose upon their election. This is as true of the present pontiff as of …
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This is Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of August
Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of August is for evangelization in the city. “Roughly half of us live in cities. Jesus himself walked city streets, in Cana, …