Archive for February 21, 2010

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Catholic Church shows ‘robust’ growth in U.S. membership, new report says

The Catholic Church’s membership in the United States grew at the “robust” rate of about 1.5 percent in 2008, according... Read more

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Pro-life doctors challenge proposed New Zealand abortion guidelines

Pro-life doctors have gone to court to challenge new medical guidelines that require doctors to advise patients who have doubts... Read more

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Church to commemorate life of woman with troubled childhood

On Thursday, February 25, the Church will celebrate the life of Blessed Maria Adeodata Pisani, a 19th century candidate for... Read more

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Cloistered nun tells of life in Alaska monastery

On a recent snowy morning, Blessed Sacrament Monastery in Anchorage looked especially quiet. There were no cars in the parking... Read more

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Lent provides time to renew fight against temptation, teaches Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI spoke about the significance of Lent in his words before the Angelus on Sunday at the Vatican. ... Read more

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Brooklyn Bishop Robert Brennan leads a Eucharistic procession inside a packed Louis Armstrong Stadium in Brooklyn, New York, on April 20, 2024.

PHOTOS From the subway to the sacred: Brooklyn’s breathtaking Eucharistic Revival

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urges ‘massive subsidized day care’ plan to reduce abortion

Orvich said he wanted to share his experience with same sex attraction “so that the Lord might touch hearts and that people repent and try returning to a chaste life."

Redeemed from sexual libertinism, prostitution, and occult, Fran Orvich tells his story

People join together during a “Rally to Stop the Six-Week Abortion Ban” held at Lake Eola Park on April 13, 2024, in Orlando, Florida.

Could Florida become the first state to defeat an abortion amendment?

Edward Burne-Jones, “St. George Kills the Dragon,” 1866

Did St. George really slay a dragon?

Ana Estrada, 47, suffered from polymyositis, an incurable disease that left her confined to a wheelchair. Since 2019, she had been been petitioning Peruvian courts to recognize a right to euthanasia.

For first time, incurably ill patient undergoes euthanasia in Peru

Argentine pro-life Dr. Leandro Rodríguez Lastra.

Argentine doctor completes prison sentence for preventing a chemical abortion in process

Pope Francis greets an elderly couple at a general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Pope Francis to meet with thousands of grandparents and their grandchildren at the Vatican

Bishop Tesfasellassie Medhin of the Catholic Eparchy of Adigrat in Ethiopia, which covers the Tigray region.

‘I’m a witness to unspeakable suffering’: Ethiopia bishop wants peace pact implemented

Left to right: Dr. John Bruchalski, a former abortionist and IVF provider, Emma Waters, a senior research associate at the Heritage Foundation, Andrew Kubick, a bioethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center and the Religious Freedom Institute, and Sister Deirdre Byrne, superior of the D.C. Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts, discuss the "eugenic" dangers of in vitro fertilization at a panel event at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., April 18, 2024.

Experts and former abortionist warn about ‘eugenic’ IVF industry

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