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null / Credit: Thomas Andreas/Shutterstock CNA Staff, May 16, 2025 / 14:09 pm (CNA). Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news: HHS investigates conscience rights case The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is reviewing a hospital for compliance with federal conscience protections following reports that the hospital had denied…

Pope Leo XIV addresses more than 100 ambassadors in an audience on Friday, May 16, 2025, in the Clementine Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, May 16, 2025 / 11:59 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Friday said peaceful societies can be achieved if governments invested in families “founded upon the…

null / Credit: Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 16, 2025 / 12:34 pm (CNA). Budget initiatives backed by several Republican lawmakers to cut federal funding for Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for the next fiscal year are facing opposition from prominent Catholic organizations. For Medicaid, the proposal would add work requirements…

Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. / Credit: Harrison Keely, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, May 16, 2025 / 10:39 am (CNA). A Georgia hospital is requiring that a pregnant woman who was declared brain dead more than 90 days ago remain on life support until the birth of her unborn child. In…

St. Hedwig’s Cathedral in Berlin, Germany. / Credit: Cedric BLN via Wikimedia (public domain) Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 16, 2025 / 11:21 am (CNA). Here is a roundup of Catholic world news that you might have missed this week: Berlin pharmacist ordered to give up practice after refusing to sell ‘morning-after’ pill Berlin pharmacist Andreas…