4+ hour, 48+ min ago  (528+ words) (OSV News) "On Dec. 21, Puerto Rico's Gov. Jenniffer Gonz'lez-Col'n approved Law 183-2025, which amends the Civil Code of Puerto Rico and recognizes the unborn child or "nasciturus" " a Latin legal term referring to "conceived but not born" " as a natural person…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (861+ words) But what does it really mean to be a domestic church? A domestic church is a household of persons who are, first, united to one another and God through the sacramental life of the church, and, second, committed to living…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago  (782+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) " The U.S. Supreme Court's Roe ruling was a flawed "free-floating" decision, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said in discussing the legal reasoning behind her vote in the high court's Dobbs ruling in 2022 overturning the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide....

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (281+ words) Joy Within His House: A Cloistered Nun's Reflections on Following Christ Sister Mary Magdalene of the Immaculate Conception Prewitt, Our Sunday Visitor (2025), 264 pages, $27.95 The life of nuns can easily captivate the imagination of Catholics and non-Catholics alike from the stories…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (555+ words) (OSV News) "A new winter symposium promises to explore Catholic teaching on gender, sexuality and the role of women while marking the 30th anniversary of St. John Paul II's "Letter to Women." Nesti CFC, located at the University of St. Thomas…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (432+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) "Approximately 50 Planned Parenthood clinics closed in 2025 as the group lost its ability to bill Medicaid, according to a report by the nation's largest abortion provider. Although it was not named in the provision, Planned Parenthood, the nation's…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (382+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) "Catholic bishops in Illinois offered their support to a lawsuit from pro-life pregnancy centers that say a Prairie State law requiring those centers to refer women for abortions violates their First Amendment rights. The Catholic bishops joined…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (368+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) "The Little Sisters of the Poor appealed an August ruling from a federal district court that struck down a religious conscience rule, their legal representatives said Dec. 15. The rule, implemented by the first Trump administration, exempted employers…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (848+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) "The U.S. Supreme Court heard a major case Dec. 8 over whether the president can fire members of independent government agencies. The same week, the White House rebuffed a call from a key pro-life group to fire the FDA…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (549+ words) Written by Sandra Dibble TIJUANA, Mexico (OSV News) "Antonia Brenner was twice divorced and had raised seven children when she gave up her comfortable life in Southern California to live in a small prison cell in the border city of…...