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Health care professionals at the Colorado-based, pro-life Bella Health and Wellness health care clinic. / Bella Health and WellnessDenver, Colo., Apr 17, 2023 / 13:02 pm (CNA).A federal judge granted a pro-life health care clinic a temporary exemption from Colorados first-in-the-nation ban on the abortion pill reversal regimen after the clinic filed a lawsuit soon after the measure took effect.U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Domenico said in his injunction Sunday that the new law, which was par...

Pope Francis meets participants in the plenary assembly of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches at the Vaticans Clementine Hall, Feb. 18, 2022 / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Apr 17, 2023 / 11:55 am (CNA).On Monday Pope Francis introduced a limit of 80 years of age for retired bishops and patriarchs in the Eastern Catholic Churches to take part in decisional voting.In the motu proprio Iam Pridem, issued April 17, the pope modified four articles in the Code of Canons for the Eastern Churches, ...

Historic Tower at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. / ShutterstockWashington D.C., Apr 17, 2023 / 15:55 pm (CNA).Lawmakers are demanding answers from the Biden administration after a military hospital ended a contract with the Franciscan friars who have provided Catholic pastoral services there for nearly two decades. The Holy Name College Friary in Silver Spring, Maryland, received a cease-and-desist order April 4, during Holy Week, that ordered them to ha...

Null / ShutterstockSt. Louis, Mo., Apr 17, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA).A bill under consideration in Washington state would allow licensed youth shelters to withhold information from parents about whether a child in their care is undergoing a gender transition, allowing the shelters to instead contact the state. The bill, titled "Supporting youth and young adults seeking protected health care services," introduced by six Democrats, passed the state House last Wednesday. The bi...

Null / UnsplashWashington D.C., Apr 18, 2023 / 08:50 am (CNA).Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Friday vetoed a "born-alive" bill protecting babies who survive botched abortions. This comes the week after Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a similar bill mandating doctors care for abortion survivors.Both Kansas and Arizona have majority Republican legislatures but Democratic governors.In Kansas, where abortion is legal until the 22nd week of pregnancy, the governor called the born-alive bill &qu...

Null / St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office|Wikimedia|CC BY-SA 4.0Boston, Mass., Apr 18, 2023 / 13:20 pm (CNA).The Catholic bishops of Tennessee joined more than 130 religious leaders in the state Tuesday in calling on Republican Gov. Bill Lee and the Legislature to enact tighter gun restrictions including "extreme risk" or "red flag" laws.The letter comes less than a month after a mass shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville in which a former studen...

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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis introduces U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, not pictured, at the start of a climate crisis event at the Arvada Center for Performing Arts in Arvada, Colorado, on March 6, 2023. / Jason Connolly/AFP via Getty ImagesDenver, Colo., Apr 15, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA).Catholic and pro-life leaders lamented Colorado Gov. Jared Polis final approval of three strongly pro-abortion bills on Friday, objecting that they prioritize abortion "at the cost of countless childrens live...

Pope Francis at the Wednesday general audience on Dec. 28, 2022. / Vatican Media.Vatican City, Apr 16, 2023 / 08:30 am (CNA).Pope Francis asked people to pray for Sudan on Sunday, that the countrys rival military factions might lay down their weapons and pursue peace."I am following with concern the events unfolding in Sudan," he said April 16, from a window overlooking St. Peters Square. "I am close to the Sudanese people, already so tried, and I invite you to pray so that they m...

The tomb of St. Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938) in Lagiewniki, Poland. / Mazur/catholicnews.org.ukWashington D.C., Apr 16, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA).Forty-two years ago, a family of three from Massachusetts packed their bags and headed to Poland seeking a miracle. Bob and Maureen Digan, along with their 8-year-old son, Bobby, arrived at Sister Faustina Kowlaskas tomb at the Shrine of Divine Mercy near Krakow on March 23, 1981. Maureen had been in a wheelchair since she was a teenager, after a dia...