Is There Room for Pro-Life Feminists at the Women’s March on Washington?

Emma Green reports: Pro-life women are headed to D.C. Yes, they’ll turn out for the annual March for Life, which is coming up on January 27. But one week earlier, as many as a few hundred pro-lifers are planning to attend the Women’s March on Washington, which has been billed as feminist counterprogramming to the… Read More Is There Room for Pro-Life Feminists at the Women’s March on Washington?

Watch: Great Interview with New CEO of Catholic Relief Services

On January 1, Sean Callahan became the new president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services. Kim Lawton of Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly traveled to Haiti with Callahan last November in the wake of Hurricane Matthew and spoke with Callahan about his humanitarian mission, his concerns about the anti-refugee climate in America, and what he learned… Read More Watch: Great Interview with New CEO of Catholic Relief Services

USCCB to GOP Leaders: Don’t Repeal Obamacare Without Replacement, Pursue Universal Coverage

Bishop Frank Dewane, chairman of the USCCB committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development sent a letter to GOP Congressional leadership: A repeal of key provisions of the Affordable Care Act ought not be undertaken without the concurrent passage of a replacement plan that ensures access to adequate healthcare for the millions of people who… Read More USCCB to GOP Leaders: Don’t Repeal Obamacare Without Replacement, Pursue Universal Coverage

What the Politics of Abortion Will Look Like in 2017

Millennial writer Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig has a new column at America: It appears likely that pro-life activists will spend the next few years waging a legal war against abortion, while pro-choice activists mount a renewed culture war in an attempt to undercut the energy behind those efforts. With few pro-life voices or think tanks producing… Read More What the Politics of Abortion Will Look Like in 2017

Quote of the Day

US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power on Russian aggression: “Having defeated the forces of fascism and communism, we now confront the forces of authoritarianism and nihilism.”

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Check out these recent articles from around the web: Grace Enough by Brendan Busse: “At their core, the Spiritual Exercises are about the personification of love, not the possibility of it. The possibility of love, or its impossibility, paralyzes us. But the personification of love, the vulnerable, wounded, beaten love that I saw in the… Read More Around the Web

Pope Francis: Protect and Defend Migrant Children

via Vatican Radio: “It is necessary to take every possible measure to ensure protection and defense to migrant children,” Pope Francis said, “as well as their integration,” into host societies. “These, our brothers and sisters, especially if unaccompanied, are exposed to many dangers,” the Pope said – dangers that include being taken and sold into… Read More Pope Francis: Protect and Defend Migrant Children