Puerto Rico Gov. Jenniffer González signed into law on Feb. 12 a bill amending the penal code to recognize unborn babies as human beings at “any stage of gestation.” Senate Bill 923 — which when signed became Law 18-2026 — amends Article 92 of the penal code, which currently states that “murder is the intentional,…

The University of Notre Dame is signaling that it will stick by its appointment of an outspoken pro-abortion advocate to lead a university institute even after bishops from around the U.S. have criticized the decision and urged the school to change course. Multiple bishops have lamented the school’s decision to appoint global affairs Professor Susan…

Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley this week lamented the state’s execution of convicted murderer Kendrick Simpson, urging prayers for an end to what he called the “inhumane” punishment of the death penalty. Oklahoma executed Simpson on Feb. 12 for the 2006 murders of 20-year-old Glen Palmer and 19-year-old Anthony Jones. Simpson was convicted of killing…

The parish priest of St. Joseph Catholic Church of the Kaduna Archdiocese in Nigeria has confirmed the kidnapping of the parish catechist, his pregnant wife, and over 30 other people in a bandit attack. In an interview with Arise television, Father Linus Matthew Bobai said the Feb. 9 attack forced residents of Kutaho and Kugir…

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday will travel outside the Vatican to visit a Roman parish — the Basilica of Santa Maria Regina Pacis — in the seaside community of Ostia, about 17 miles southwest of the city’s center. A popular summer destination for tourists, Ostia will be the first of five parishes where the pope,…