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Study: Doctors don’t screen for abortion coercion — and it hurts women

A recent study highlights that when women are coerced or pressured into abortion, they are at high risk for negative outcomes — but abortion prviidess...

Sainthood cause for Virginia farmer who saved his son moves forward

The sainthood cause for Tom Vander Woude, a Catholic father of seven who died saving his youngest son, moves to the information gathering stage.

Report flags weak funding and low completion in natural family planning programs

The report found that a total of 18,211 individuals received some instruction on natural family planning across dioceses in 2025, but there were only ...

Nearly 700 young Christians gather in Iraq for Baghdeda Youth Festival

The young people came together to pray and hear talks under the theme “In the Footsteps of St. Francis.”

UN asked to recognize surrogate motherhood as a new form of slavery

The request makes the case that surrogacy fits the definition laid out in the 1926 Slavery Convention that the practice entails the rights of ownershi...

Cardinal Czerny announced as first recipient of Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal

The recently retired prefect of the Vatican’s human development office will receive the award from the pope on Oct. 13.