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West Virginia’s new law bars abortions of unborn diagnosed with disability
The governor announced he had signed the bill, which overwhelmingly passed the legislature in bipartisan fashion, on World Down Syndrome Day March 21. The law also requires information on support systems available to families.
Pope intends to visit Lebanon ‘soon’
Pope Francis said Lebanon has a special place in his prayers, and he reiterated his intention to visit the country he called "a model for the world," in a conversation with President Michel Aoun, a Maronite Catholic.
Black Catholics seek worship spaces free of racism
As Black Catholics confront racism in the church and in American society, they also encounter it at predominantly white parishes in the Philadelphia Archdiocese, and seek to worship with other Catholics "who look like me," said one Black man.
Marriage Enrichment Day set for April 2
The day-long Saturday event for all married engaged couples will feature dynamic speakers, food and fellowship, and evening Mass with Bishop John McIntyre.
U.S. bishops recommit church to pro-life initiatives
As the nation awaits the U.S. Supreme Court's most significant abortion ruling in decades, the leadership of the bishops' conference joined "in prayer and expectant hope" that states will ban abortion if Roe is overturned.
Text of prayer of consecration for Ukraine, Russia
See the Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, sent by the Vatican to bishops throughout the world, whom Pope Francis will lead when he recites the prayer March 25 in St. Peter's Basilica.
El texto para la consagración de Rusia y Ucrania
Este es el texto del Vaticano para la Consagración al Inmaculado Corazón de María. El papa Francisco ha invitado a los obispos y al resto del mundo a unirse a él cuando recite la oración el 25 de marzo en la Basílica de San Pedro.
Russia and Ukraine, and all humanity, to be consecrated to Mary
With Russia's invasion of Ukraine and responding to a request from Ukrainian bishops, Pope Francis will lead all the world's bishops, clergy and faithful in the act of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary March 25 in Rome.
After frightening trip, Ukrainian families welcomed in Polish convents
Some 18,000 refugees from Ukraine were receiving spiritual, psychological, medical and material help at 924 convents in Poland and about half are sheltering almost 3,000 adults -- mostly women -- and more than 3,000 children.
Pope’s sweeping Curia reform stresses evangelization, laity
In reorganizing the Catholic Church's central administration, Pope Francis' reforms promote a "healthy decentralization" that links synodality, care for the poor, missionary discipleship and roles for lay leadership in the Roman Curia.