Category: US
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California Catholic hospital apologizes after lawsuit claims it denied pregnant woman care
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 2, 2024 / 17:45 pm The head of a Catholic hospital network in California has issued an apology after the state’s attorney general filed a lawsuit claiming Providence St. Joseph Hospital refused emergency care to a pregnant woman whose water broke prematurely at 15 weeks. “We are heartbroken over the experience…
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Pro-life group launches ad debunking false claim that Georgia abortion law killed women
By Peter Pinedo Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 27, 2024 / 17:27 pm One of the country’s leading pro-life groups has launched a $500,000 television and digital ad campaign debunking misinformation that Georgia laws protecting unborn life killed two women. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, the group behind the ad, said the two women, Amber Thurman and Candi…
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Doctors dispute claim raised at Senate hearing that pro-life laws are killing women
By Peter Pinedo Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 26, 2024 / 17:36 pm At a hearing held by U.S. Senate Democrats this week doctors, experts, and Republicans disputed claims that former president Donald Trump and state pro-life laws enacted after the overturn of Roe v. Wade are causing the deaths of women across the country. Dr.…
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Judge shields Catholic employers from mandate to provide time off for abortion, IVF
By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Sep 24, 2024 / 17:30 pm A Monday ruling from a federal judge in North Dakota shields thousands of Catholic parishes and employers — for now — from new regulations mandating time off for abortions and fertility treatments as part of federal legislation originally designed to help mothers. At issue…
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Missouri death row inmate claims racial bias, seeks to stop execution
By Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Sep 23, 2024 / 16:45 pm A Missouri death row inmate sentenced to death for a 1998 murder will have his case reviewed by the state Supreme Court ahead of his scheduled execution on Tuesday. Attorneys for Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams argued before the court Monday that Williams did not…
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‘It gives me hope’: Catholic advocates work to abolish death penalty at federal level
By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Sep 21, 2024 / 09:00 am Pro-life advocates have seen significant gains in rolling back the death penalty in states around the country in recent years. A smaller but still determined band of activists and policymakers, meanwhile, is hoping for a similar victory at the federal level. The vast majority…
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Judo athlete Nemanja Majdov banned for five months; sign of the cross at Olympics one of several factors
By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Sep 20, 2024 / 16:23 pm An Olympic judo athlete has been banned from competition in part because he made the sign of the cross at this year’s Olympic Games. Serbian judo world champion Nemanja Majdov was hit with a five-month ban by the International Judo Foundation (IJF) after having made the…
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‘Catholics for Harris-Walz’ online meeting downplays abortion concerns among faithful
By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 19, 2024 / 15:45 pm Catholic supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential candidacy hosted a national organizing call with the campaign on Wednesday night in which speakers downplayed some of the faithful’s concerns about her support for abortion. The “Catholics for Harris-Walz National Organizing Call,” held on Sept.…
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Donald Trump and Polish president to visit Catholic shrine in Pennsylvania
By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 18, 2024 / 15:50 pm Former president Donald Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda will visit a Polish Marian shrine in the Bucks County suburbs of Philadelphia on Sunday, Sept. 22. The National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa is located in Doylestown — about midway between the…
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Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, urges participation in next phase of Eucharistic Revival
By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Sep 17, 2024 / 14:45 pm Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, recently urged Catholics to think about how they could “walk with,” pray for, and share the Catholic faith with one person over the next year as part of the ongoing National Eucharistic Revival. In a Sept. 13 column,…