‘Every execution should be stopped’: How U.S. bishops work to save prisoners on death row — By: Catholic News Agency

null / Credit: txking/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 25, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Bishops in multiple U.S. states are leading efforts to spare the lives of condemned prisoners facing execution — urging clemency in line with the Catholic Church’s relatively recent but unambiguous declaration that the death penalty is not permissible and should be abolished. …

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Pope Leo XIV approves decrees for 11 martyrs killed by Nazi Germany, communists — By: Catholic News Agency

The sun rises over the main gate with the renowned sign “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work makes you free”) of the Museum of Auschwitz/Birkenau German Nazi concentration and extermination camp on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. / Credit: Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images Vatican City, Oct 24, 2025 /…

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Advocates call on Trump, Congress to permanently defund Planned Parenthood — By: Catholic News Agency

The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Andrea Izzotti/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 24, 2025 / 14:22 pm (CNA). Life-affirming organizations are calling on the Trump administration and Congress to permanently block funding to Planned Parenthood. In an Oct. 22 letter, Students for Life Action President Kristan Hawkins and more than 50 signers asked President…

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