Mexico’s Catholic council of bishops says a priest has been killed in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit. The council identifies Felipe Altamirano Carrillo as an Indigenous priest and says he was killed early on Monday. His Nayar prelature serves a population made up largely of Huichol and Cora Indians. The council gave no details, but local media report
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholic environmental advocates decried President Donald Trump’s executive order that would begin a review of his predecessor’s Clean Power Plan, which set targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. The advocates said that reversing any effort that reduces greenhouse gas pollution endangers the planet and puts the world’s most vulnerable people at risk because of climate change. Citing the efforts by Pope Francis, Pope Benedict, St. John Paul II and the U.S. bishops to address the importance of protecting the environment, Dan Misleh, executive director of the Catholic
The Catholic faithful have “a serious, human, and societal responsibility” to protect human life, a spokesman for the Mexican hierarchy said in a message for the national Day for Life. Bishop Francisco Javier Chavolla Ramos of Toluca, the chairman of the Mexican bishops’ pro-life committee, called for active resistance against the “anti-human and criminal confusion” that allows for thousands of abortions each year. He said that the deliberate taking of human life can never be justified: “not for research purposes, nor because they are elderly, disabled, sick, unable to understand, or a migrant
PARIS, March 17, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Canon lawyers, theologians, and scholars will be meeting in Paris in two weeks to discuss a topic that has never been the focus of a Catholic conference before: How to depose a heretical pope. Titled Deposing the Pope: Theological Premises, Canonical Models, Constitutional Challenge, the conference seeks to explore the mechanisms that are built
NEW YORK, March 24, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Any woman who votes for the American Healthcare Act, which defunds Planned Parenthood, is “betraying every woman in America,” Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards said during a somber interview this morning. Speaking to BuzzFeed, Richards implored Ivanka Trump to “stand for women” and do something to stop the bill. Richards suggested Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-TN, is one of the “folks who [has] been very hostile to women’s health.” Blackburn and other pro-life women in Congress advocate
Philadelphia, Pa., Mar 18, 2017 / 05:32 am (CNA).- As fears of deportation threaten to keep many immigrants home from a prayer service on Sunday, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia is calling on citizens and legal residents to attend the event in support.
March 13, 2017 An Italian rabbi has raised a protest against the topic of a conference to be held by the Italian Bibilical Association: “Israel, people of a jealous God. Consistencies and ambiguities of an elitist religion.” Rabbi Giuseppe Laras said that the conference topic—which had been approved by the Italian bishops’ conference—reflected the influence of Marcionism. (Marcionism, a heresy that arose in the 2nd century, rejected the Old Testament and claimed that the stern God of the Hebrews was not the merciful God of the New Testament.)
TROY, Ohio, March 10, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – As an abortion abolitionist, Bryan Kemper wears many different hats – including sharing the pro-life message while driving for Uber. “I am in an area where I drive a lot of college students and almost everybody that gets in the car asks me, what do I really do for a living?” Kemper told LifeSiteNews in a video interview. Kemper is the president and founder of Stand True Pro-Life Outreach and the director of youth outreach for Priests for Life. He has been
March 8, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – What does it mean to be a woman? Planned Parenthood and the modern-day feminist movement are profoundly confused about this. Today is International Women’s Day. Planned Parenthood and its allies would have people believe that one of the greatest ways women can overcome gender “equality” is by expanding abortion and contraception. They would have young girls believe that cancer-causing contraception is essential to their “healthcare” and that the right to dismember a tiny human being is a “fundamental right.”
March 7, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Planned Parenthood has declined an offer from President Trump to keep – and possibly increase – its federal funding in exchange for ceasing to commit abortions. The proposal was an “impossibility” for Planned Parenthood officials, the New York Times reported. Planned Parenthood receives nearly half a billion dollars from the federal government annually. Its non-abortion services are able to be billed through Medicaid. Planned Parenthood claims abortion is “only