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2 weeks ago | angelusnews.com | Kimberley Heatherington writes |Kimberley A. Heatherington |Hannah Brockhaus |Cindy Wooden

The title of a new study released April 28 by the Ethics and Public Policy Center is one Catholics, following the church's moral teaching, would agree upon: "The Abortion Pill Harms Women." "Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means," states the Catechism of the Catholic Church, "is gravely contrary to the moral law." But it is the second part of the EPPC study title -- "Insurance Data Reveals One in Ten Patients Experiences a Serious Adverse Event" -- that...

2 months ago | angelusnews.com | Kimberley Heatherington writes |Kimberly Heatherington |Cindy Wooden |Scott Hahn

In 2015, Pope Francis shared an urgent message with the world. Writing in "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," he said the Earth "cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her."With the 10th anniversary of the release of "Laudato Si'" approaching May 24, experts wonder: Have we been listening?

2 months ago | angelusnews.com | Kimberley Heatherington writes |Kimberly Heatherington |Cindy Wooden |Heather King

It was one solid social victory amid the communal disintegration of the COVID-19 pandemic: With the congressional passage of the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act, an estimated 3.7 million U.S. children were lifted out of poverty when the maximum federal child tax credit was raised -- and, more importantly, when it was made "fully refundable."That meant that -- for the first time -- this federal tax credit was available to all children and families, even with low or no earnings.

Feb 20, 2025 | angelusnews.com | Kimberley Heatherington writes |Kimberly Heatherington |Peter Smith |Junno Arocho Esteves

President Donald Trump's Feb. 18 executive order on in vitro fertilization is the president's first step toward fulfilling a campaign trail promise to expand IVF -- an action the Catholic Church and other experts warn will fuel large-scale destruction of embryonic human life, while doing little to increase the nation's overall birth rate.

Sep 28, 2024 | angelusnews.com | Kimberley Heatherington writes |Kimberly Heatherington |Elise Italiano Ureneck

Amid ongoing and potentially escalating conflict in both the Middle East and Ukraine, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin cautioned gathered delegates at the 79th session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York Sept. 28 that, “peace is only possible if it is wanted."While it was earlier rumored that Pope Francis might address the assembly, the pontiff was instead in the middle of his 46th Apostolic Journey abroad, to Luxembourg and Belgium.