Pro-life, Bio-Ethics and the Disabled

A U.S. court of appeals again reinstated the Texas abortion law Oct. 14, refusing a request from the U.S. Department of Justice to allow a lower court ruling blocking enforcement of the Texas law to stand. The state law prohibits abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services said Oct. 12 that "no one should be forced to receive a COVID-19 vaccine if it would violate the sanctity of his or her conscience."

All health care professionals have a right to conscientious objection, just as they have a right to denounce unjust harm inflicted on innocent and defenseless life, Pope Francis said.

Hundreds of asylum seekers and allies march at the border and across the U.S. demanding for the end of Title 42 and the full restoration of asylum protections

Libby Johnson, a retired delivery room nurse, has prayed near a Miramar, Florida, abortion clinic for the past six years for miracles that would close the facility and end abortions there. But now, after reflection and many talks with the Lord, she said she feels called to do more.

A U.S. court of appeals temporarily stayed the recent injunction on the Texas abortion law while it reviews the state's request to reinstate the ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

President Joe Biden will nominate Catholic lawyer Joseph Donnelly of Indiana, a former member of the U.S. House and Senate, to be the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.

Pope Francis met privately at the Vatican Oct. 9 with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was in Rome to speak at a meeting of legislators from around the world in preparation for the U.N. climate summit.

A federal judge Oct. 6 temporarily blocked Texas from enforcing a law that went into effect Sept. 1 banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

Ahead of the Day for Life which is observed in Ireland on Sunday, the country’s bishops invite reflection on the accompaniment of the terminally ill.

The Biden administration's decision to allow Title X family planning funds go to health facilities that perform and promote abortion "is offensive to tens of millions of Americans," said the president of National Right to Life.

It was a Wednesday that I went to the Adoration Chapel and decided to pray my scriptural Rosary. The verse for the bead had the beginning of the above: Do not weep for me… but for your children. Yet I was compelled to read further, so I turned on my Bible application and was dumbfounded. It hit me in that very moment that we are in the midst of the days when people are “blessing” the “barren, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed.” As I picked my Rosary back up and continued to pray the mysteries of the Passion of our Lord, I did begin to weep.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco is asking "all Catholics and others of goodwill" to join a prayer and fasting campaign for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic Democrat who supports legal abortion.

A newly approved abortion law has been strongly criticized by the Chilean Bishops Conference (CECH) in a statement recalling that "the first human right is the right to life" and pointing out that abortion is not a solution to problems.

As we move toward October, Respect Life Month, we have a couple of suggestions for those interested in truth when it comes to human life.