Baton Rouge, La., Nov 19, 2019 / 10:00 am (CNA).- Pro-lifers are hopeful that the re-election of Democrat John Bel Edwards as Louisiana governor could turn the tide in a party whose leadership has grown increasingly more pro-abortion with each election cycle.
John Bel Edwards was re-elected as governor of Louisiana on Saturday by a 40,000-vote margin, winning more than 51 percent of the state’s vote.
A Catholic, Edwards first ran for the office in 2015 on an explicitly pro-life platform and won more than 56% of the vote. His campaign aired a TV ad revealing that Edwards and his wife, then 20 weeks pregnant with their daughter, had discovered she had spina bifida in utero. They couple faced down encouragement from a doctor to abort their child.
A Scottish private school teacher is facing being struck off after slamming Ruth Davidson for having a fatherless child .
Richard Lucas, a physics teacher at £35,000-per-year Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, made the comments on a video he posted to his YouTube channel.
Mr Lucas is now being investigated by the General Teaching Council for Scotland for his April 2018 video titled Ruth Davidson and the fatherless children .
Mr Lucas captioned the 15-minute-clip: Ruth Davidson wishes to normalise the production of fatherless children, does not value marriage, and follows the ABM childcare philosophy.
In the video, the physics teacher blasts the Conservative MSP for having a child saying: They haven t produced this baby together, this baby is the product of Ruth Davidson and a gentleman whose identity is a mystery to us.
Death penalty opponents Carol Mayfield, from left, Pilar and Ron Jones, Maryellen Rodgers and Mary Anne Cummins gather at historic St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Fairfax, Va., to pray for an end to the death penalty in this 2017 file photo. The Virginia House of Delegates voted 57-41 to abolish the death penalty Feb. 5, 2021, two days after the Virginia Senate took the same action in a 21-17 vote. (CNS photo/Zoey Maraist, Catholic Herald) Feb. 5, 2021 Catholic News Service ARLINGTON, Va. Both the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate have now passed bills that would abolish the death penalty in the state.
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A meeting on Jan. 29 between Pope Francis and members of the Roman Rota, the Vatican’s highest judicial tribunal, raised an issue that Francis has returned to several times in his pontificate: annulment reform. The pope said that since 2015, when he tried to streamline the annulment process and make it less costly, he has received “much resistance” to his reforms.
“Almost all of them were lawyers who were losing clients. And therein lies the problem of money,” said Pope Francis. “In Spain, there is a saying, ‘
Por la plata baila el mono’ ‘Monkeys will dance for money.’” (Now filed under: “Things no other pope would ever say.”)