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“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.”

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.

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.

“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.”

In focus: prisoners and organ donation, bishops united against abortion, U.S.-born priest appointed to oversee Dicastery for Bishops

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.”

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.”

In the spotlight: Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, interreligious dialogue, Houston tornado damage