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Catholics urged to oppose federal bill to legalize abortion

The U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote this week on proposed legislation that would legalize abortion at any stage of pregnancy and invalidate existing state and federal laws regulating ...

N.Y. delegation visits Ukraine, bordering countries

NEW YORK (CNS) — New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said he was surprised and inspired by Ukrainians he met when he made a brief visit to Lviv, Ukraine. “I thought ...

Leaked draft of Supreme Court opinion shows overturn of Roe ...

The Supreme Court appears set to overturn its Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion for nearly 50 years.

Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore addresses a news conference in Washington in July. As chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, he has been at the forefront of the bishops' opposition to the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate for employers and to what the bishops see as a too-narrow exemption for religious employers.

Health care law rollout met by frustrated public, moral objections

Pope Francis kisses a girl as he arrives to lead his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Dec. 18.

Pope Francis captures imaginations well beyond the Catholic Church

Candles burn at a mass grave outside a church in Leyte province in the Philippines Dec. 16, the start of Simbang Gabi, a nine-day devotional period before Christmas. The markers contain the names of victims of the Typhoon Haiyan. The November super storm killed more than 6,000 people in central Philippines.

2013’s disasters: some acts of God, some man-made, some a bit of both?

Children sit down for breakfast at the Baltimore Catholic Charities Head Start program in Edgewood, Md., in June. As U.S. lawmakers wrestled over budget issues this year, bishops and other Catholic advocates continued to press for actions that would protect the poor.

Call for Congress to help poor repeatedly raised by Catholic leaders

U.S. President Barack Obama listens to hunger striker Eliseo Medina during a Nov. 29 visit with immigration reform advocates in their tent on the National Mall in Washington. Since Nov. 12, advocates for immigration reform who are participating in a "Fast for Families" have abstained from food as they call on Congress to act on reform legislation.

Immigration reform lingers in Congress

Palestinian civil defense volunteers paddle a boat to evacuate people Dec.16 from their flooded houses in the northern Gaza Strip. The snowstorms and torrential rain that battered the Mideast in mid-December threatened to make this Christmas season an especially difficult one for Christians in Gaza.

Floods, rain threaten to make Christmas more difficult in Gaza

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