“We are prioritizing opposition to expanding abortion as well as efforts by social media companies to manipulate the hearts and minds of children for ideological and financial reasons.”
Inside the Capitol: Advocating for children — born and unborn
West Virginia AG defends state abortion law after federal challenge from state’s lone abortion clinic
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey asked a federal court to deny an abortion facility’s motion to halt enforcement of the state’s law banning abortion in most circumstances.
Spanish church vows to resist new ‘anti-life laws’
Catholic bishops in Spain have bitterly criticized new laws liberalizing abortion and gender reassignment in their latest clash with the Socialist-led government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
Pro-life pregnancy centers criticize AP’s new ‘anti-abortion’ terminology
“Rather than sticking to a neutral term, it appears the AP has opted for terminology that favors the pro-choice movement’s strategy to discredit pregnancy centers,” Roland Warren, the president and CEO of Care Net, which supports a network of 1,200 pregnancy centers, told Our Sunday Visitor newspaper. “This does not come across as unbiased journalism.”
Nation/World news briefs: Feb. 6, 2023
In focus: prisoners and organ donation, bishops united against abortion, U.S.-born priest appointed to oversee Dicastery for Bishops
Social ministry ‘fundamentally a work of faith,’ cardinal says
The Mass celebrated by Cardinal Wilton Gregory came on the final day of the Jan. 28-31 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering. The meeting addressed workers’ rights, migrants and refugees, housing inequities, hunger and food insecurity, poverty, climate change, systemic racism, gun violence, restorative justice, abortion, domestic violence, and “pro-woman and pro-family policies.”
Speakers address how local churches can protect lives of mothers and their unborn children from domestic violence
The ways Catholics can accompany pregnant women subjected to violence by their partners, and those who counsel abortion — was the subject of a Jan. 29 session of the 2023 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington, “Peace Starts Here: Healing Wounds from Abortion and Domestic Violence.”
Photos of the Week: Jan. 30, 2023
In the spotlight: Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, interreligious dialogue, Houston tornado damage