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Medical and public-health authorities say some abortions are performed to protect a woman’s life or health; professional groups like ACOG argue that abortion care should be treated as medically indica...
Mikie Sherrill is a practicing Roman Catholic who has publicly identified her faith and participated in faith-adjacent events; she also has a voting record and policy agenda that aligns with mainstrea...
The Canon Law rule is clear: . Recent diocesan guidance and national‑level statements confirm that only a diocesan bishop (or a bishops’ conference in defined instances) may authorize cross‑communion,...
Yes—you can generally become Catholic if your first husband is deceased and you later married again; the Catholic Church treats a marriage ended by death as terminated, so a widow’s subsequent marriag...
The Catholic Church treats a civil divorce as a state-level dissolution of a legal marriage, while a Church “annulment” (more properly a declaration of nullity) is a tribunal finding that an essential...
No reputable source in the supplied reporting attributes a verified, exact quotation from Pope Leo XIII (d. 1903) about Donald Trump; contemporary reporting instead discusses statements and homilies b...
The Catholic Church does not treat a civil divorce as freedom to remarry; to wed sacramentally again a person normally must obtain a Church declaration of nullity (commonly called an annulment) from a...
A Catholic may attend and participate in a non‑Catholic wedding ceremony, but ; admission to the Eucharist is governed by Catholic doctrine and canon law and is reserved for those in communion with th...
The 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church reaffirms confession as the ordinary means for reconciliation, spelling out the penitent’s acts (contrition, confession, satisfaction) and restating the annua...
A person who has had two past marriages can be received into the Catholic Church, but whether they may be considered validly married within the Church — and therefore able to marry or have their marri...
The Catholic annulment — technically a “declaration of nullity” — is a Church tribunal’s investigation into whether a marriage ever met the canonical requirements for a binding sacramental union, begi...
The Second Vatican Council prompted a deliberate reimagining of the sacrament of penance that produced three post‑conciliar pastoral innovations — communal penitential services emphasizing the communi...
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, 21 April 2025, at age 88 in his residence at the Domus Sanctae Marthae / Casa Santa Marta; the Vatican cited a cerebral stroke and irreversible cardiovascular colla...
Catholic social teaching (CST) centers on human dignity as its foundational claim and is commonly summarized either as a four‑part core (dignity, common good, solidarity, subsidiarity) per the Compend...
The Bible is the central sacred text of Christianity and is read daily by churches and devotional sites; contemporary resources like USCCB lectionary pages and DailyVerses publish daily readings and v...
Since 2020 the Vatican has issued at least two notable public moves on confession and absolution: a March 20, 2020 note from the Apostolic Penitentiary allowing “general absolution” in certain “grave ...
Multiple Christian bodies and traditions—notably Catholic bishops, many mainline Protestant denominations (including Methodists and Presbyterians), and a coalition of moderate and progressive Protesta...