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April 18, 2019
A man is in custody after he attempted to bring containers of gasoline into St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City Wednesday night. The man was identified by NYPD as Marc Lamparello, a Ph.D. student at City University of New York. He has been arrested previously for criminal trespass and public drunkenness. Lamparello was apprehended
April 07, 2019
Students at The Catholic University of America have asked the administration to ban the top 200 pornography websites from its internet system. The call came in a petition and resolution passed by the university’s Student Government Association and signed by its student body president on Monday, April 1. The “Resolution for a Pornography Free Campus
April 05, 2019
Archbishop Wilton Gregory made an uncompromising commitment to transparency during his introduction to the faithful of Washington, DC, at a press conference Thursday. “First of all, I believe that the only way I can serve this local archdiocese is by telling you the truth,” said Gregory at his formal introduction as the next Archbishop of
April 03, 2019
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) filed a discharge petition for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act Tuesday. The petition needs 218 signatures to force a debate on the floor of the House of Representatives. The bill would make it a crime for a doctor to refuse to provide age-appropriate medical care to an infant
March 28, 2019
A bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide in Maryland failed in the Senate on Wednesday after a dramatic deadlock vote saw one state senator refuse to cast the deciding ballot. The End-of-Life Options Act was one vote short of the 24 needed to advance out of the Senate. The vote was a tie with 23 senators
March 27, 2019
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Tuesday an expansion of the pro-life Mexico City Policy and the slashing of funds to the Organization of American States in response to its abortion advocacy. These new policies are designed to ensure that taxpayer dollars are not used to fund abortion or the promotion of abortion abroad.
March 20, 2019
The writers and co-directors of the upcoming film “Unplanned” have spoken of how they prepared for a “spiritual battle” to make the pro-life film in the hopes that it will change hearts and minds through it groundbreaking depiction of the abortion process. “We, from the beginning, knew that it would be spiritual battle, spiritual warfare.
March 14, 2019
The imposition of a state moratorium on the use of the death penalty by Gov. Gavin Newsom was hailed as a positive step by California’s bishops Wednesday. But the state’s Catholic leaders cautioned the state’s criminal justice system was still in need of reform. Newsom announced March 12 that he would issue an executive order
February 23, 2019
The Trump administration finalized new federal rules on Friday, by which abortion clinics will be ineligible to receive Title X Program funding. Planned Parenthood is expected to be stripped of about $60 million in federal funds due to the rule change. The finalized version of the “Protect Life Rule” was announced in a February 22
February 22, 2019
Attorneys for Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann announced they filed a $250 million dollar lawsuit against the Washington Post after the newspaper reported that Sandmann harassed a Native American man following the March for Life. The suit alleges that the Washington Post “engaged in a modern-day form of McCarthyism by competing with CNN
February 14, 2019
The Archdiocese of Newark released a list of names of credibly accused clergy on Wednesday, including disgraced former archbishop of the diocese Theodore McCarrick. The archdiocese listed McCarrick as “permanently removed from ministry,” although a final verdict is still pending in his canonical process. On February 13, all the Catholic dioceses of New Jersey released
February 08, 2019
The Supreme Court has blocked from taking effect a Louisiana law requiring abortion doctors to hold admitting privileges at hospitals nearby to abortion clinics. The court issued a stay on Thursday evening. In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court granted a temporary stay blocking the law while it is adjudicated in lower courts. Chief Justice
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