In the spotlight: Pope’s overseas trip, refugee awareness, remembering 9/11, Labor Day Encuentro
Photos of the Week: Sept. 13, 2021
Supreme Court rules against blocking Texas’ 6-week abortion ban
The Texas Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops, said the Supreme Court’s action marked the first time since Roe v. Wade that the nation’s high court “has allowed a pro-life law to remain while litigation proceeds in lower courts.”
USCCB, Catholic groups, politicians back Mississippi in court abortion case
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in its friend-of-the-court brief filed July 27, stressed that abortion is not a right created by the Constitution and called it “inherently different from other types of personal decisions to which this court has accorded constitutional protection.”
No ‘devout Catholic’ can condone killing child in the womb, says archbishop
“The right to life is a fundamental — the most fundamental — human right, and Catholics do not oppose fundamental human rights,” the archbishop said in a July 22 statement.
Photos of the Week: July 26, 2021
In the spotlight: Tokyo Olympics, western wildfires, prayers in Mexico
Pro-life groups criticize Catholic university for hosting Biden town hall
Objections from Cincinnati Right to Life and other pro-life groups were mounting ahead of the one-hour evening event on the Catholic campus because Biden, who is Catholic, supports keeping abortion legal.
To church’s dismay, Veracruz state approves bill decriminalizing abortion
Lawmakers in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz approved a bill July 20, 2021, decriminalizing abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, the second such decriminalization measure approved in Mexico in barely two weeks.
Spending bills without Hyde seen as move to expand abortion on demand
The USCCB’s Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities is asking Catholics and all “people of goodwill” to sign an online petition urging Congress not to let federal funds be used to pay for abortions.