I SACRIFICED My 3 Children for My AMBITION

Can the need for ambition become an overbearing weight? The push for assisted suicide in Canada in the name of compassion has made significant gains in recent years, but the witness of pro-life Catholic Kirsten MacDonald, who was diagnosed with debilitating Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (or ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease), demonstrates that every […]

Lawmakers grill FBI chief on anti-Catholic memo

null / Credit: Dzelat/Shutterstock Washington D.C., Jul 13, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA). Republican lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday pressed FBI director Chris Wray on a leaked memo from the bureau’s Richmond division that described an investigation into Catholic communities.  The internal memo, dated Jan. 23 and leaked to the press on […]

Complex Catholic hospital mergers pose ethics challenge for U.S. bishops

Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco. / Credit: Michael Vi/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 13, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA). The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has asked its Committee on Doctrine to address issues such as transgender surgeries and hormone treatments for a proposed update to the bishops’ “Ethical and Religious Directives for […]

Lawmakers Grill FBI Chief on Anti-Catholic Memo

Mark Van Scyoc Wray told the committee that the FBI is conducting an internal review of the memo, which will likely be completed later this summer Jordan and other members of the committee asked Wray why he has not released the names of the FBI agents involved in crafting the memo and why the FBI […]