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By: Claire Cleveland | Published: Oct 11, 2019

In 2010, the Catholic Church excommunicated Margaret McBride, a nun and ethics board member at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix,…

By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy | Published: Nov 08, 2016

Emmett McLoughlin wrote People's Padre: An Autobiography, based on his experiences as a Roman Catholic priest advocating for the health of people in…

By: Katherine Brind'Amour | Published: Feb 29, 2008

Father Frank Pavone, a key proponent of the Roman Catholic Church's pro-life movement, has devoted his life's work to ending abortion, euthanasia,…

By: Katherine Brind'Amour, Benjamin Garcia | Published: Nov 13, 2007

The "Humanae Vitae," meaning "Of Human Life" and subtitled "On the Regulation of Birth," was an encyclical promulgated in Rome, Italy, on 25 July…

By: Benjamin Garcia, Katherine Brind'Amour | Published: Nov 11, 2007

Pope John Paul II's views on abortion and embryology have been very influential to the Roman Catholic Church. He strictly forbade abortion and other…

By: Katherine Brind'Amour | Published: Nov 11, 2007

Known for dropping a long-held distinction in the Catholic Church between the animated and unanimated fetus, Felice Peretti was born in Grottamare,…

By: Kimberly A. Buettner | Published: Nov 08, 2007

Born on 24 March 1890 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, to Ann and Frank Rock, John Charles Rock was both a devout Catholic and one of the leading…