Archive for June 17, 2019

Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville delivers the St. Thomas Day Lecture at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paul, Calif., Jan. 28, 2019. Photo courtesy of TAC.?w=200&h=150

By Matt Hadro

Meet the bishop who weaves Gospel verses, art, and Tolkien into his ministry

There are bishops who may or may not tweet with any regularity, and then there’s “Amigo de Frodo”, who provides... Read more

Pope Francis in the gateway to Peru's Madre de Dios region in the Amazon January 19, 2018. ?w=200&h=150

By Courtney Mares

Amazon Synod to consider possible ordination of married men

The working document for the special assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-amazonian region, released Monday, recommends study... Read more

Fr. Michel Los was ordained in a Warsaw hospital a few weeks before his death. ?w=200&h=150

Polish priest ordained after cancer diagnosis dies

A young Polish priest who was ordained last month following a terminal cancer diagnosis has died, his community announced Monday.  Read more

Lou Leon Guerrero, governor of Guam, at a White House meeting with governors-elect, Dec. 13, 2018. ?w=200&h=150

Guam's Catholics oppose governor's plan to expand abortion

Catholics in Guam have organized a prayer rally to protest the territorial governor's plan to recruit a doctor willing to... Read more

Attendees at the 2019 GIVEN Forum, which met at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Photo ?w=200&h=150

By Christine Rousselle

Forum forms women in leadership, dignity, faith

The 2019 GIVEN Catholic Young Women’s Leadership Forum, which met last week, convened more than 100 professional Catholic women in... Read more

Archbishop Michel Aupetit of Paris greets fellow clerics after the June 15, 2019 Mass in Notre-Dame de Paris' Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs chapel. ?w=200&h=150

Paris archbishop at Mass: Notre-Dame exists to be a place of worship

During Saturday's Mass in a side chapel of Notre-Dame de Paris, the cathedral's first since its April fire, Archbishop Michel... Read more

Crowds protest against the now-suspended China extradition bill in Hong Kong. ?w=200&h=150

Christian leaders call for dialogue, end to violence in Hong Kong

Hundreds of thousands of protestors in Hong Kong are continuing to demonstrate against the government's plans to allow extraditions to... Read more

Protesters gather again to rally outside the Legislative Council government offices against a controversial extradition bill in Hong Kong, June 17, 2019. ?w=200&h=150

Hong Kong extradition bill could further endanger Christians, advocates say

Though a proposed change to extradition laws in Hong Kong is on hold for now, Christian leaders and advocacy groups... Read more

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German doctors fined for abortion ads

Two German doctors were fined Friday for abortion advertisements which described how the procedure is carried out.  Read more

Wedding Cakes by Alex Grichenko (CC0 1.0).?w=200&h=150

Supreme Court gives second chance to Oregon cake bakers who declined same-sex wedding

An Oregon bakery whose owners declined to make a cake celebrating a same-sex commitment ceremony will get another chance in... Read more

Archbishop Jose Gomez at a June 11 press conference. ?w=200&h=150

By JD Flynn

Analysis: How will the USCCB vote in first elections since McCarrick scandal?

While the spring meeting of the U.S. bishops’ conference has only just concluded, some bishops are already looking to the... Read more

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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

Reporter Catherine Hadro speaks with Sister Mary Gianna of the Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ and Frank DeAngelis on “EWTN News In Depth” on April 19, 2024. Sister Mary Gianna, also known as Jenica Thornby, was a sophomore at Columbine High School and DeAngelis was principal on April 20, 1999, when two gunmen killed 12 students and one teacher before turning their guns on themselves.

Columbine High School massacre, 25 years later: ‘God, why did you allow me to survive?’

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