Fact check: Do parental notification laws for abortion harm minors? — By: Catholic News Agency

null / Credit: Photographee.eu/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 6, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Claim: Laws requiring minors to notify their parents if they are getting an abortion “threaten young people’s health and safety and undermine their human rights,” claims a report by the Human Rights Watch. CNA finds: CNA finds a strong pro-abortion bias in…

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‘Don’t kill me’: Empty wheelchairs dramatize campaign against assisted suicide in Italy — By: Catholic News Agency

Empty wheelchairs were used during a Nov. 4, 2025, anti-assisted suicide event in Rome. / Credit: Photo courtesy of ProVita & Famiglia Rome, Italy, Nov 5, 2025 / 17:03 pm (CNA). The Piazza del Popolo (People’s Square), one of Rome’s most iconic and monumental spaces, became the stage on Nov. 4 for a powerful campaign…

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Judge orders halt to alleged ‘inhumane’ conditions for Illinois detainees — By: Catholic News Agency

A Catholic delegation attempts to bring Communion to detainees at the Broadview, Illinois, immigration facility and was not admitted Nov. 1, 2025. / Credit: Bryan Sebastian, courtesy of Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 5, 2025 / 18:58 pm (CNA). A Chicago-based federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to…

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Texas voters approve adding parental rights amendment to state constitution — By: Catholic News Agency

The Ten Commandments outside the Texas capitol. / Credit: BLundin via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Houston, Texas, Nov 5, 2025 / 10:47 am (CNA). Texas voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved Proposition 15, the Parental Rights Amendment, with more than 72% in favor. The measure, which passed alongside all 16 other constitutional amendments on the ballot,…

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Cardinal McElroy of Washington, D.C., diagnosed with cancer, but prognosis ‘good’ — By: Catholic News Agency

Cardinal Robert McElroy at the Church of San Frumenzio ai Prati Fiscali in Rome on April 23, 2023, when he took possession of his titular church as a cardinal. / Credit: Pablo Esparza/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 5, 2025 / 11:11 am (CNA). Cardinal Robert McElroy, the 71-year-old archbishop of Washington, D.C., has been diagnosed…

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