The arguments hinged on the question of whether the Indiana constitution protects the right to abortion.

In what is called the Ecumenical Pilgrimage of Peace, Pope Francis will visit South Sudan’s capital, Juba, along with Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury and the Rev. Iain Greenshields, moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, from Feb. 3-5.

Young people preferred to talk about the personal: a friend or family member who considered abortion and found support through either a pregnancy resource center or the prayers of others.

Xavier University of Louisiana has produced more African American students who go on to earn medical degrees and doctorates in the health sciences than any other college or university in the country.

Bishop Burbidge also called for respectful dialogue with those who disagree about abortion, adding that endless “tweets and retweets,” “triumphalism” and similar approaches will not bring about a victory for life.

On the eve of the annual national March for Life, leading experts convened by the University of Notre Dame’s de Nicola Center discuss a post-Roe world in which mothers, babies (born and unborn), and families are protected and cared for as they deserve.

In adapting Bayard’s work for the screen, moreover, writer-director Scott Cooper, whose eponymous film is currently streaming on Netflix, gets things off to a promising start.

A statement by the high court said the leak “one of the worst breaches of trust in its history.”