Bishop Michael Burbidge condemned amendments that legalize abortion up to birth and protect homosexual ‘marriage,’ adding that Catholics ‘must look to God’ for pro-life and pro-family future leaders.
Texas’ Catholic bishops congratulated Democratic winners, who won every top office statewide, and prayed for their wisdom while reaffirming that Catholic principles remain unchanged.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of the Catholic Diocese of Arlington mourned the fate of unborn children after Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment that will allow unregulated abortions of healthy babies up to birth.
Bishops Michael Burbidge and Barry Knestout urge Catholics to persevere in defending the dignity of human life and traditional marriage following Tuesday’s electoral results
Catholic bishops reacted to three pro-life losses in referendum battles, and pro-life groups have weighed in on the referendum results and the impact of the decisive Democratic congressional wins.
Donald Trump stood before the United Nations in 2019 and told global bureaucrats to stop attacking pro-life nations. Seven years later, a UN women's rights committee told the nations bound by...
Image Source: Diocese of Urgell Andorra’s Catholic co-Prince was reportedly given just hours to examine proposed legislation decriminalising abortion before the country’s government publicly announced the reform, raising questions about the treatment of one of the principality’s two Heads of State. According to the Andorran newspaper La Veu Lliure, Bishop Josep-Lluís Serrano i Pentinat was […]
The loving care of Catholic religious sisters has surrounded dying New Yorkers for decades, but now, plaintiffs say a new law would force healthcare workers to take an active part in promoting assisted suicide. Aleteia previously reported that Bishop John O.
Missouri voters wrote abortion into their state constitution in November 2024 with only 51.6 percent of the vote. Ahead of the November 3 rematch, one Springfield pastor sat down with 250...
Maura Healey signed a law on August 10 letting doctors end a pregnancy right up until birth. On October 29, Massachusetts churchgoers hauled nearly 100,000 certified signatures into the Statehouse to...
The signature-gathering campaign this fall was supported by all four Catholic diocesan bishops in the state, who encouraged pastors to allow pro-lifers to ask churchgoers at Sunday Masses.
(OSV News) — As the nation’s Catholics conclude Respect Life Month, Massachusetts pro-life advocates are challenging a new law in that state expanding abortion, and have collected nearly 100,000 voter… The post BREAKING: Mass. abortion law repeal backed by Catholic bishops hits nearly 100K signatures to get on 2028 ballot first appeared on OSV News .
Cardinal Blase Cupich tried to give pro-abortion Senator Dick Durbin a lifetime achievement award in 2025. Durbin backed out after ten bishops objected, and Chicago Catholics figured their cardinal had learned...
The bishops oppose a policy that "does not build but destroys," Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda said, as historian Piotr Franaszek takes the helm of the Church's abuse commission.
Bishops John Folda and David Kagan say Measure 1 would protect the state constitution and help safeguard North Dakota’s pro-life laws from changes backed by narrow majorities
The 2008 Vatican document Dignitas Personae affirmed the dignity and rights of frozen embryos and expressed reservations about proposals for prenatal adoption.
A statement from the Archdiocese of Denver noted that Archbishop James Golka and other bishops prayed for President Trump in the White House, and noted “continued conversation on the sanctity of life, from conception to natural death, and the God-given dignity of every person.” According to the Denver Catholic, citing the While House faith director, Jenny Korn, who posted about it on X, the bishops met with the US president on October 22, and spoke with him about “religious freedom, school choice, family tax credits, religious visas, and life.” The Denver archdiocesan statement noted that Arch
In November 2024, Nevada voters backed a constitutional right to abortion with 64% of the vote. Catholic bishops in four states are answering the November 3 election with a weapon campaigns...
Seminarians and lay faithful joined Bishop Robert Barron to pray in front of Planned Parenthood in Rochester, Minnesota, where he encouraged them to continue the battle to end abortion.