March for Life
As March for Life continues, supporters, opponents plan more state action
By Adelle M. Banks — January 18, 2024
(RNS) — ‘I think where we're going to see the most engagement and the most action is at the state level,’ said Focus on the Family analyst Nicole Hunt.
How ‘The Chosen’ star Jonathan Roumie became a poster child for Christian causes
By Kathryn Post and Jack Jenkins — March 3, 2023
(RNS) — 'I'm not the real Jesus. Let's just get that out of the way,' Roumie said in January at the March for Life.
A half-century after Roe, faith groups need to reexamine theology behind abortion politics
By Jacob Lupfer — January 20, 2023
(RNS) — The last time we had religious innovation on the question of abortion came in the 1970s.
At March for Life, a jubilant crowd prepares for state-level fights
By Jack Jenkins — January 20, 2023
WASHINGTON (RNS) — 'It's really going to move more towards a local level,' said a priest and university president from Ohio, who attended the march.
After Roe, 50th March for Life a turning point for national, state abortion protests
By Adelle M. Banks and Jack Jenkins — January 19, 2023
(RNS) — Since last summer’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, much of the focus of the abortion fight has moved to statehouses.
For the religious right, a victory 50 years in the making
By Yonat Shimron and Jack Jenkins — June 24, 2022
(RNS) — A mighty coalition comprising mostly conservative Catholics, evangelical Christians and Mormons grounded its theological aims in the language of human rights and played its politics unrelentingly.
Creating a Catholic Church she can belong to
By Benjamin Spratt and Joshua Stanton — June 3, 2022
(RNS) — Jamie Manson, president of Catholics for Choice, is often asked why she doesn’t leave a church whose direction she often questions. But she long ago found that Catholicism offered the very theology that promised her, and so many others, belonging.
At March for Life, a mix of triumph and apprehension
By Jack Jenkins — January 21, 2022
(RNS) — Organizers condemned the presence of people affiliated with America First, whose leader is widely decried as a white nationalist.
The pandemic is reminding us that ‘pro-life’ and ‘anti-abortion’ are not the same
By John Gehring — January 21, 2022
(RNS) — Strict anti-abortion stances are at odds with opposition to vaccine mandates and other broader life issues.
On eve of March for Life, Catholic abortion rights advocates counterprotest pro-life vigil
By Jack Jenkins — January 21, 2022
(RNS) — The group Catholics for Choice projected slogans on the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception as worshippers inside held an anti-abortion vigil.
At March for Life, a pivot away from Trump and toward ‘unity’
By Jack Jenkins — January 29, 2021
(RNS) — Unlike last year's event, 2021's virtual version of March for Life featured few mentions of former President Trump.
Annual March for Life goes virtual amid COVID-19, unrest at US Capitol
By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 15, 2021
(RNS) — The annual anti-abortion demonstration has brought supporters to the nation's capital each year since the first anniversary of Roe v. Wade in 1974 to hear from speakers and march to the Supreme Court building.
Trump addresses March for Life, where religion and politics mix
By Jack Jenkins — January 24, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God’s creation,’ Trump said.
At the Vatican, Pope Francis and US VP discuss pathways for world peace
By Claire Giangravé — January 24, 2020
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis met with US Vice President Mike Pence for an hour-long conversation at the Vatican on Friday, as President Donald Trump attends the yearly March for Life in Washington D.C.
Trump woos Catholics on abortion but may lose them on life
By John Gehring — January 24, 2020
(RNS) — The president's appearance at this year's March for Life is the kickoff to an expected ‘Catholics for Trump’ campaign that will focus on abortion over immigration, climate change and inequality.
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