By Maureen Ferguson It is a grand Washington, DC tradition. Every year, on the first Sunday in October, Catholic and non-Catholic dignitaries alike gather at St Matthew’s Cathedral to pray for the judicial branch of government. It’s the annual Red Mass, a tradition that extends…
Dr. Grazie Christie appeared on EWTN to discuss a lawsuit against a Catholic hospital for refusing to perform procedures that violate Church teaching. Watch the clip here.
By Maureen Ferguson The recent “shocking” discovery of the remains of 2,246 human fetuses at the home of Indiana abortion doctor Ulrich Klopfer is indeed horrifying, ghastly, and above all utterly heartbreaking. But it is not shocking. Our abortion culture has so dehumanized the “unwanted”…
By Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie The response by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to a question regarding abortion at CNN’s recent town hall on climate change for Democratic presidential candidates will surely find a prominent place in the annals of tin-eared commentaries. A woman asked Sanders if…
The Catholic Association has filed an amicus brief in the case of Sharonell Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, asking the Supreme Court to hear this important case. At issue is whether the government can discriminate against faith-based adoption and foster care agencies because of their…
By Grazie Pozo Christie A growing number of states are enacting laws requiring doctors who perform pharmaceutical abortions to inform the mothers that it may be possible to halt the abortion if they change their minds. Now, the Center for Reproductive Rights and the American…
By Grazie Pozo Christie A new Marist poll shows a sharp jump in the percentage of Democrats that identify as pro-life, compared to just a month ago. The numbers are impressive: 34 percent of them now identify as pro-life, up from 20 percent, with a simultaneous…
By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer Will Philadelphia’s Catholic Social Services soon have to close its foster care program – a program or ministry that has operated for a century in a city that desperately needs more foster homes to take in its most vulnerable kids? It’s now…
By Ashley McGuire There are public relations problems and there are public relations crises. Then there is what Planned Parenthood is experiencing with the departure of its former president, Dr. Leana Wen. Wen, the first doctor to run the abortion chain in nearly five decades, is not going quietly…
By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer Should a 93-year-old World War I monument in the shape of a cross be leveled to the ground? Or just have its horizontal arms sawed off so it is no longer a cross and, thus, no longer offensive to the American Humanist…
