Tish Harrison Warren writes: The Dobbs Supreme Court decision recognized that there is no inherent right to abortion that flows from a commitment to liberty or autonomy, in part because “abortion is fundamentally different, as both Roe and Casey acknowledged, because it destroys what those decisions called ‘fetal life’ and what the law now before… Read More Whole Life Responses to the Overturning of Roe

via the Washington Post: Mark Shields, a onetime campaign manager who became one of Washington’s most respected political commentators, both as a syndicated columnist and as a genial liberal counterpart to several conservative sparring partners on the “PBS NewsHour,” died June 18 at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 85…. The Wall Street… Read More Mark Shields (1937-2022)

via the Vatican: Our epoch and our culture, which reveal a worrisome tendency to consider the birth of a child as a simple matter of the biological production and reproduction of the human being, cultivate the myth of eternal youth as a desperate obsession with an incorruptible body. Because old age is — in many… Read More Pope Francis: Don’t Hide Wrinkles With Makeup

via the White House: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom is an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission created by the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act that monitors the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad. USCIRF uses international standards to monitor religious freedom… Read More Catholic Leader Stephen Schneck Appointed to United States Commission on International Religious Freedom

via Reuters: Gunmen attacked a Catholic church in southwest Nigeria during mass on Sunday, killing at least 50 people including women and children, according to a hospital doctor and media reports. The gunmen shot at people outside and inside the church building, killing and injuries worshippers, said Funmilayo Ibukun Odunlami, police spokesperson for Ondo state.… Read More Dozens Killed in Pentecost Attack on Nigerian Church

Christopher White writes: Pope Francis on May 29 named 16 new cardinal electors, including Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, California, along with three Vatican officials and a number of bishops from the global south… McElroy, 68, will become the seventh residential U.S. cardinal under the age of 80 and thus eligible to vote in… Read More The Next US Cardinal: Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego