Those efforts should include finding ways to protect maternal health and lower the maternal death rate, assist poor women, provide or expand paid family leave and control access to guns in the country.
After court decision, it’s time for widespread pro-life work, Vatican says
Photos of the Week: June 27, 2022
In the spotlight: Roe v. Wade decision, World Meeting of Families, restoring earthquake-damaged artwork
Look to the future, not to the past, pope tells families
Pope Francis encouraged families to take up their calling “with renewed conviction” and urged them to make sure the love they share is “always open, directed outward, capable of ‘touching’ the weak and wounded, the frail in body and the frail in spirit, and all whom you meet along the way.”
Families and forgiveness: Australian family shares their tragic story
In February 2020, seven children walking to the store to get ice cream in Sydney, Australia, were struck by a driver who was drunk and on drugs. Four of them died. The parents of three of the victims has since focused on the power of forgiveness.
Welcoming court’s decision, leaders say it’s time to build pro-life culture
Two leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops hailed the Supreme Court’s June 24 decision to overturn the court’s 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide and said it is time for “healing wounds and repairing social divisions” with those who take opposing views on abortion.
Outside high court, joy, defiance and insults after Roe is struck down
There are many prayers of thanksgiving but also prayers said for peace during a tense time for the country.
Being next to Eucharist ‘felt like truly a blessing,’ says young Catholic
The Eucharist is not only about the transformation of bread and wine into the blood and body of Jesus but “how people are being transformed, how each one of our lives are being changed as a result,” said Cardinal Cupich.
Political pundit Mark Shields is remembered as a man of faith, humor
At his June 22 funeral Mass, Mark Shields — a fixture for 33 years as a commentator on the PBS “NewsHour” — was remembered as a man who believed in the power of politics serving the common good, and as a man of faith and humor.