Abortion

Excommunicated for an Abortion?

Our diocese distributed a pamphlet on examining your conscience. It states that having an abortion or encouraging a woman to do so would mean automatic excommunication from the Catholic Church. If I do that, is this so?

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Handling Post-Abortion Guilt

I have had two abortions. My friend at work told me that the Catholic faith can help me with the massive guilt that I feel. Please tell me how. Thanks for writing. You are not alone in realizing that an ...
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My Post-Abortion Journey

My Post-Abortion Journey

An abortion at 17 haunted this writer for decades until she found forgiveness and freedom in God.
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I’d Like to Say: Stop Weaponizing the Eucharist

We may find common ground on pro-life issues when we expand our view to include other pressing social problems.
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Catholic pro-life activists pray Feb. 11, 2023, outside of Bread and Roses Woman's Health Center, a Clearwater, Fla., clinic that provides abortions. A new annual report by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued Jan. 16, 2025, identified what it called five areas of critical concern, defined as both threats and opportunities, for religious liberty. (OSV News photo/Octavio Jones, Reuters)

Murder Is Not Pro-Life

George Tiller, a medical doctor and one of only a handful of physicians in the country who performed late-term abortions, was one of the most reviled figures by anti-abortion activists.
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