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A pro-life advocate from Iowa holds a sign during the 2017 March for Life in Washington. The Iowa Supreme Court in a 4-3 ruling June 28, 2024, said the state's six-week abortion limit could be enforced amid a legal challenge to it. (OSV News photo/CNS file, Tyler Orsburn)

Iowa Supreme Court says 6-week abortion ban can be enforced

July 1, 2024

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled June 28 that the state’s six-week abortion limit could be enforced amid a legal challenge to it.

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Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden participate in their first U.S. presidential campaign debate in Atlanta June 27, 2024.

Biden, Trump spar over abortion, migrants and each other in first presidential debate

June 28, 2024
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, participated in the first general election debate of the 2024 cycle on June 27, including on topics like abortion, immigration, foreign policy, and the economy.
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A homeless man carries his belongings along a street in San Francisco May 19, 2024. The needs of the homeless and other vulnerable groups in the U.S. have been among the concerns of the U.S. bishops' Catholic Campaign for Human Development as it has provided grants, through an application process, to groups that address societal issues. Other target projects of CCHD, founded in 1970, have included voter registration, credit unions, job training programs, cooperatives and nonprofit housing corporations.

US bishops’ conference confirms cuts to key department tasked with social policy, initiatives

June 27, 2024
Days after they gathered for their annual spring meeting, the U.S. Catholic bishops' conference has laid off an unspecified number of employees as part of the reorganization of a key department tasked with promoting awareness of and advocacy for Catholic social teaching at home ...
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Pope Francis, alongside Papal Almoner Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, blesses an ambulance to be donated to a hospital in Ukraine's Ternopil region in this undated photo taken at the Vatican and released June 24, 2024.

Pope donates ambulance, opens rehabilitation center in Ukraine

June 25, 2024
Pope Francis blessed an ambulance filled with medicine and first-aid equipment that will travel some 1,800 miles from the Vatican to support those wounded in Ukraine.
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A U.S. flag-themed handgun is displayed for sale at the Des Moines Fairgrounds Gun Show at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines March 11, 2023.

Supreme Court upholds gun ban for domestic abusers

June 24, 2024
The Supreme Court June 21 upheld a federal ban on the possession of firearms by domestic abusers, rejecting an argument that the ban violated the Second Amendment.
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Demonstrators protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington June 25, 2022, the day after the high court ruled in the Dobbs v Women's Health Organization abortion case, overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision. (OSV News photo/Elizabeth Frantz, Reuters)

New book examines fall of Roe and role Catholics played in effort

June 21, 2024
In the nearly 50 years separating Roe v. Wade from the Supreme Court's June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision that reversed the court's previous abortion precedent, abortion opponents argued against the Roe ruling many of them saw ...
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A devotee is seen in Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Concepcion, Bolivia, one of many historic Jesuit missionary sites within the country declared a World Heritage Site in 2019. (OSV News photo/David Mercado, Reuters)

Deceased Spanish Jesuit accused of abusing ‘hundreds’ of Indigenous girls

June 20, 2024
A Spanish Jesuit has been discovered to have documented his abuse of hundreds of Indigenous girls while serving as a missionary in rural Bolivia.
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