By Tyler Arnold Washington, DC Newsroom, August 28, 2024 / 3:07 p.m. “At first it was kind of a shock – we didn’t realize how much we were hated and despised when we went in there,” Marie Leatherby, who has run a pro-life pregnancy center in California’s capital for 13 years, told CNA by phone. […]
By Jonah McKeown CNA staff, August 23, 2024 / 5:45 p.m. As of Friday, Nebraska is the only U.S. state where voters will have to consider two conflicting ballot proposals on the topic of abortion in November. One proposal would enshrine the state’s current pro-life laws in the Constitution, and the other would enshrine a […]
By Peter Laffin Chicago, Illinois, August 21, 2024 / 6:40 p.m. Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats for Life America, denounced the presence of Planned Parenthood’s “abortion van,” which offered free abortions, vasectomies and emergency contraception right before the Democratic National Convention. She then immediately called on her organization and allies to roll up their […]
By Daniel Payne CNA staff, August 21, 2024 / 2:14 p.m. An elderly Soviet concentration camp survivor and six other pro-life activists have been found guilty of blocking access to a Michigan abortion clinic, the latest in a series of high-profile rulings against anti-abortion activists in federal court. The seven defendants in the case were […]
CNA staff, August 20, 2024 / 11:21 a.m. In an invocation on the opening night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Blase Cupich lamented the “ongoing injustices in our national life” while calling for national unity. Pro-life groups expressed disappointment that the prayer did not make specific reference to the tragedy of […]
By Walter Sánchez Silva ACI Prensa staff, August 20, 2024 / 5:06 p.m. Cardinal Peter Erdö, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest in Hungary, said faith is the most important thing in life and something he learned from his parents, most clearly during the years of communist rule in the European country. In an interview with Vatican Radio […]
By Andrés Henriquez ACI Prensa staff, August 18, 2024 / 07:00 Less than a month before the 53rd International Eucharistic Congress (IEC 2024) in Quito, Ecuador, Father Juan Carlos Garzón, the event’s general secretary, said it will be an opportunity to “place the Eucharistic Christ at the center of the life of the Church and […]
By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, August 18, 2024 / 06:00 This month, the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (CGS), a method of teaching catechesis to young students inspired by Montessori education, celebrates its 70th anniversary and its 40th anniversary as an official organization in the United States. Founded by Sofia Cavalletti and inspired by the […]
By Kristina Millare Vatican City, August 15, 2024 / 09:31 a.m. During his Angelus address for the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, Pope Francis reminded Catholics that the Blessed Virgin Mary always goes before us on our journey. Referring to the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke, which describes the encounter between the […]
By Jonah McKeown CNA staff, August 14, 2024 / 6:01 p.m. Pro-life leaders in Missouri are urging voters to reject a proposed “reproductive freedom” constitutional amendment that would enshrine a so-called “right to abortion at any point in pregnancy” – a change in the law that would mark a significant shift after years of pro-life […]
